This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss
enact and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the
late nineteenth twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It presents analyses of language
and gender from a broad spectrum of national contexts: Catalonia Canada China India Japan
Nigeria Vietnam Philippines Tonga and the United States.Cases studies consider language and
gender in changing workplaces schools and immigrant integration workshops as well as in new
and emerging sites for consumption and the production of identity. They also analyze the
changing meanings of multilingualism and the construction of ideologies about gender and
language in colonial and postcolonial national ideologies. The papers engage with and
contribute to theoretical conceptualizations of globalization cosmopolitanism
(post)colonialism (trans)nationalism and public spheres by drawing on a variety of
sociolinguistic analytic strategies (variation analysis media analysis interactional
sociolinguistics ethnography of speaking sociology of language colonial discourse analysis).
