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Gender and the Language of Illness

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Gender and the Language of Illness

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale
    Pages 1-24
  3. Methods for Investigating Gender and Language

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale
    Pages 25-51
  4. Men’s Traditional Discourse of Illness: Distancing and Avoidance

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale
    Pages 52-86
  5. A Feminine Discourse of Illness: Transformation and Modality

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale
    Pages 87-118
  6. Emotional Disclosure: Socio-economic Classification, Age and Gender

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale
    Pages 119-161
  7. Experience of Support: Gender, Class and Age

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale
    Pages 162-195
  8. Illness Type and Gender

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale
    Pages 196-225
  9. Conclusion

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale
    Pages 226-229
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 230-247

About this book

An investigation of the influence of gender, social class, age and illness type in the language of people talking about their experiences of illness. It shows evidence of both conformity with and resistance to gender stereotypes.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of the West of England, UK

    Jonathan Charteris-Black

  • Queen Mary University of London, UK

    Clive Seale

About the authors


JONATHAN CHARTERIS-BLACK is Professor of Linguistics in the University of the West of England, UK, and formerly Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey. He is author of: Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis (2004), Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor (2005) and Communication and Leadership: The Design of Leadership Style (2006).

CLIVE SEALE is Professor of Medical Sociology at Queen Mary University of London, UK, where he works in the medical school. Previously he has been Professor of Sociology at Brunel University and at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is author of The Quality of Qualitative Research (1999), Constructing Death: the Sociology of Dying and Bereaevment (1998) and Media and Health (2002) as well as numerous other books, chapters and articles.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender and the Language of Illness

  • Authors: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281660

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Jonathan Charteris-Black and Clive Seale 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22235-9Published: 07 July 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30790-6Published: 07 July 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28166-0Published: 07 July 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 247

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Gender Studies, Language and Literature

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