Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference Table of Contents

Karen L. Adams 
       Accruing power on debate floors: 1-10

Mira Ariel and Rachel Giora 
       Gender versus group-relations analysis of impositive speech acts: 11-22

Arnetha F. Ball 
       The discourse of power and solidarity: Language features of 
       African American females and a male program leader in a 
       neighborhood-based youth dance program: 23-35

Susan Schick Case 
       Organizational inequity in a steel plant: A language model: 36-48

Marisa Castellano 
       The ultimate gatekeeper: Sexual harassment 
       in a job training program: 49-56

Grace P. Chan 
       Gender, roles, and power in dyadic conversations: 57-67

Jenny Cook-Gumperz 
       Gendered talk and gendered lives: 
       Little girls being women before becoming (big) girls: 68-79

Colette G. Craig 
       Miss Nora, rescuer of the Rama language: 
       A story of power and empowerment: 80-88

Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet 
       Communities of practice: 
       Where language, gender, and power all live: 89-99

Susan Erlich and Ruth King 
       Feminist meanings and sexist speech communities: 100-107

Susuan Erivin-Tripp and Martin Lampert 
       Gender differences in the construction of humorous talk: 108-117

Genevieve Escure 
       Gender and linguistic change in the Belizean Creole community: 118-131

Michele Foster 
       "Are you with me?": Power, solidarity, and community 
       in the discourse of African American women: 132-143

Alice F. Freed 
       We understand perfectly: A critique of Tannen's view of 
       cross-sex communication: 144-152

Susan Gal 
       Language, gender, and power: An anthropological view: 153-161

D. Letticia Galindo and Maria Dolores Gonzales Velasquez 
       A sociolinguistic description of linguistic self-expression, 
       innovation, and power among Chicanas in Texas and New Mexico: 162-170

Tara Goldstein 
       Language choice and women learners of English as a Second Language: 171-181

Marjorie Harness Goodwin 
       Orchestrating participation in events: 
       Powerful talk among African American girls: 182-196

Alice Greenwood and Alice F. Freed 
       Women talking to women: The function of questions in conversation: 197-206

Kira Hall 
       Women's language for sale on the fantasy lines: 207-222

Kira Hall and Beth Daniels 
       "It's rather like embracing a textbook": The linguistic representation 
       of the female psychoanalyst in American film: 223-239

Heide E. Hamilton 
       Bringing aging into the language/gender equation: 240-249

Susan Herring, Deborah Johnson, and Tamra DiBenedetto 
       Participation in electronic discourse in a "feminist" field: 250-262

Leanne Hinton 
       Sex differences in address terminology in the 1990s: 263-271

Cathryn Houghton 
       "Talking it out" or talking it in: An ethnography of power 
       and language in psychotherapeutic practice: 272-285

Deborah James and Sandra Clarke 
       Interruptions, gender and power: A review of the literature: 286:299

Alexandre Kimenyi 
       Why is it that women in Rwanda cannot marry?: 300-311

H. Merle Knight 
       Gender interference in transsexuals' speech: 312-317

Elisabeth D. Kuhn 
       Playing down authority and still getting things done: 
       Women professors get help from the institution: 318-325

Amy Kyratzis 
       Gender differences in the use of persuasive justification 
       in children's pretend play: 326-337

Marianne LaFrance 
       When agents disappear: How gender affects the implicit causality 
       of interpersonal verbs: 338-343

Robin Tolmach Lakoff 
       The silencing of women: 344-355

Holly Bea Liske 
       The status of the sexes: A view through language: 356-361

Anne Machunge 
       The politics of subordination: 
       Linguistic discourse in organizational hierarchies: 362-370

Jacqueline J. Madhok 
       Effect of gender composition on group interaction: 371-385 

Bonnie McElhinny 
       "I don't smile much anymore": Affect, gender, 
       and the discourse of Pittsburgh police officers: 386-403

Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton 
       Variation in gap length and the Anita hill/Clarence Thomas 
       cross-examination discourse: 404-408

Miriam Meyerhoff 
       "We've all got to go one day, eh?": Powerlessness and solidarity 
       in the functions of a New Zealand tag: 409-419

Birch Moonwomon 
       Rape, race, and responsibility: 
       A graffiti-text political discourse: 420-429

Melanie Morton 
       Camille Paglia and the antifeminist backlash: 
       Assessing discursive strategies: 430-440

Nancy Anne Niedzielski 
       The masculine pronouns as generic: A view from the child: 441-446

Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor 
       Mothers' role in the everyday reconstruction of "Father knows best": 447-462

Peg O'Connor 
       Clarence Thomas and the survival of sexual harassment: 463-468

Yumiko Ohara 
       Gender-dependent pitch levels: A comparative study
       in Japanese and English: 469-477

Shigeko Okamato and Shie Sato 
       Less feminine speech among young Japanese females: 478-488

Jeong-Woon Park 
       A recent development in caki, a second-person pronoun in Korean: 489-500

G. Genevieve Patthry-Chavez and Madeleine Youmans 
       The social construction of sexual realities in heterosexual women's 
       and men's erotic texts: 501-514

Deborah Schiffrin 
       Gender displays among family and friends: Taking the role of another: 515-527

Amy Sheldon 
       Preschool girls' discourse competence: Managing conflict: 528-539

Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith 
       Linguistic privilege: "Just stating facts" in Japanese: 540-548

Dale Spender 
       Information management: Women's language strengths: 549-559

Laurel A. Sutton 
       Bitches and skankly hobags: The place of women in contemporary slang: 560-572

Mary Talbot 
       A synthetic sisterhood: False friends in a teenage magazine: 573-580

Senta Troemel-Ploetz 
       The construction of conversational equality by women: 581-589

Karen Woodman 
       The Goddess and the sea people: On the origins of the languages 
       of the Minoan scripts: 590-600

Hong Zhang 
       "Spare women a beating for three days, they will stand on the roof 
       and tear the house apart": Images of women in Chinese proverbs: 600-609

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