Words that matter: Lexical choice and gender ideologies in women's magazines

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2003-2021

  del Teso Craviotto, Marisol ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Feminist theory; Language and gender; Social constructionism; Vocabulary; Women's magazines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747784237     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.03.012     Document Type: Article

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