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This book is a collection of articles dealing with gender and spoken interaction, in which each of the main chapters presents an analysis of spoken language data drawn from the author’s research in a particular social setting. This chapter, however, is different: it puts theory rather than data in the foreground. In what follows I will discuss some of the theoretical issues which are significant for the study of gender and spoken interaction, and consider how those issues are dealt with by contributors to this collection. I will also attempt to place current theoretical debates in historical context, by considering the ways in which this volume reflects both continuity and change in researchers’ approaches to language and gender.
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Cameron, D. (2009). Theoretical Issues for the Study of Gender and Spoken Interaction. In: Pichler, P., Eppler, E. (eds) Gender and Spoken Interaction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230280748_1
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