Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, business and the media, where people are increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female speech is often evaluated differently.

Author Biography

JUDITH MATTSON BEAN Associate Professor of English and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at Texas Woman’s University, USA
DEBORAH CAMERON Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford
SUSAN EHRLICH Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University in Toronto, Canada
PULENG HANONG (previously published under the surname Thetela) Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa
JANET HOLMES Director of the Language in the Workplace Project and holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
ALLYSON JULÉ Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
SHARI KENDALL Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Discourse Studies in the Department of English at Texas A & M University, USA
LIA LITOSSELITI Lecturer in Linguistics at City University, London, UK
MEREDITH MARRA Research Officer for Victoria University’s Language in the Workplace Project and a Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, New Zealand
SARA MILLS Research Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University, UK
SYLVIA SHAW Senior Lecturer in Communication and English Language Studies at Middlesex University, London, UK
STEPHANIE SCHNURR Engaged in research towards a PhD in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
DENISETROUTMAN Associated Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, Culture, Linguistics and Language at Michigan State University, USA
CLARE WALSH Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Bedford, UK

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