Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. Feminist Accounts of Gender and Language Use 36
5. 3. Language Use and the Generation of Meaning 71
6. 4. Language and Performance 99
7. 5. Gricean Pragmatics 125
8. 6. Post-Gricean Pragmatics: Politeness Theory and Relevance Theory 152
9. 7. Conclusion 188
10. Bibliography 194
11. Index 201