The Handbook provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this dynamic and growing area of research. This volume is key reading for all engaged in the study and research of Language, Gender and Sexuality within English Language, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Studies, Applied Linguistics and Gender Studies.

List of Figures List of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword1 Introduction: Language, gender, and sexuality; sketching out the fieldPart 1: Variationist approaches2 Non-binary approaches to gender and sexuality 3 Sexuality as non-binary: A variationist perspective 4 Perception of gender and sexuality5 Gender diversity and the voicePart 2: Anthropological and Ethnographic approaches6 Ethnography and the shifting semiotics of gender and sexuality7 Gender, language, and elite ethnographies in UK political institutions8 ‘Gay, aren't they?' An ethnographic approach to compulsory heterosexuality9 Anthropological discourse analysis and the social ordering of gender ideology10 Using Communities of Practice and ethnography to answer sociolinguistic questions11 Digital ethnography in the study of language, gender, and sexualityPart 3: Interactional Sociolinguistic approaches12 Interactional Sociolinguistics: Foundations, developments, and applications to Language, Gender, and Sexuality13 Leadership and humour at work: Using interactional sociolinguistics to explore the role of gender14 More than builders in pink shirts: Identity construction in gendered workplaces15 Interactional Sociolinguistics in language and sexuality research: Benefits and challengesPart 4: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic approaches16 The accomplishment of gender in interaction: Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to gender17 Feminist Conversation Analysis: Examining violence against women18 Performance in action: Walking as gendered construction practice in Drag King workshops19 Gender and sexuality normativities: Using Conversation Analysis to investigate heteronormativity and cisnormativity in interaction20 Examining girls’ peer culture-in-action: Gender, stance, and category work in girls’ peer language practicesSection 5: Sociocultural and Critical approaches21 Language, Gender, and Sexuality: reflections on the field’s ongoing critical engagement with the sociopolitical landscape22 Applying queer theory to language, gender, and sexuality research in schools23 Text trajectories and gendered inequalities in institutions24 ‘I thought you didn’t accept gay marriage Fr’: Combining Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate the representation of gay marriage and the Irish Mammy stereotype in Mrs Brown's Boys25 The impact of language and gender studies: public engagement and wider communicationPart 6: Poststructuralist approaches26 Poststructuralist research on language, gender, and sexuality27 Analysing gendered discourses online: Child-centric motherhood and individuality in Mumsnet Talk28 Leadership language of Middle Eastern women: Using Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis to study women leaders in Bahrain29 Feminist poststructuralism: discourse, subjectivity, the body, and power: the case of the Burkini30 Affect in language, gender, and sexuality research: studying heterosexual desire31 Language, gender, and the discursive production of women as leadersPart 7: Semiotic and Multimodal approaches32 Gender and sexuality in discourse: Semiotic and multimodal approaches33 Multimodal constructions of feminism: The transfiguration of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Vogue34 Judged and condemned: Semiotic representations of women criminals 35 Confident appearing: Revisiting Gender Advertisements in contemporary culture 36 Doing gender and sexuality intersectionally in multimodal social media practicesPart 8: Corpus Linguistic approaches37 Lovely nurses, rude receptionists, and patronising doctors: determining the impact of gender stereotyping on patient feedback38 Investigating gendered language through collocation: The case of mock politeness39 The South African news media and representations of sexuality40 Women victims of men who murder: XML mark-up for nomination, collocation, and frequency analysis of language of the lawIndex

This comprehensive Handbook provides an invaluable survey of the wide range of theories and especially methodologies embraced by researchers world-wide to illuminate the relationship between language, gender and sexuality. It provides both newcomers and established scholars with access to the latest state-of-the-art research and offers valuable insights into how this contributes to understanding and addressing real world issues. Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand