Books written by Penelope Eckert

  • Language and Gender

    Edelsky , Carole and Adams , Karen . 1990. Creating inequality : breaking the rules in debates . Journal of Language and Social Psychology , 9 : 171-190 . Ehrlich , Susan . 2001. Representing Rape : Language and Sexual Consent .

  • Language and Gender

    In North Africa, therefore, the reinstatement of Arabic at the end of French colonization in the second half of the twentieth century had two sources of symbolic value. Colloquial Arabics had national authenticity as major native ...

  • New Ways of Analyzing Sound Change

    This volume, aimed at linguists and language students, presents an integrated approach to sound change. It examines change not simply as a series of developments within an abstracted linguistic system,...

  • Language and Gender

    Updated and restructured new edition of a textbook for courses in language and gender which is accessible to non-linguists.

  • Language and Gender

    The core emphasis is on change, both in linguistic resources and their use and in gender and sexual ideologies and personae. This book explores how change often involves conflict and competing norms, both social and linguistic.

  • Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School

    Jock and Burnout clothing is clearly differentiated on the basis of cost . Jocks , particularly girls , strive for a good number of outfits and consciously avoid wearing the same thing too closely in succession .

  • Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

    Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register , pp . 235–76 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Sato , Charlene J. 1973. Another Look at Hawaian English . Unpublished paper for Rhetoric 152 , University of California , Berkeley .

  • Meaning and Linguistic Variation: The Third Wave in Sociolinguistics

    An important new study of the social meaning of sociolinguistic variation.