Catherine S Farris
Biographic Data
| ID | 153208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine S Farris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine S |
| FAMILY NAME | Farris |
| SIGNATURE | FARRIS C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Tsing Hua University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women in the New Taiwan
Cross-sex peer conflict and the discursive production of gender in a Chinese preschool in Taiwan
Chinese preschool codeswitching
Using Carol Scotton's (1983, 1988) model of codeswitching based on markedness theory I examine a type of register variation which is referred to as ‘babytalk’, ambiguously talk of babies (or young children) and talk to babies or young children. Examples are drawn from videotapes of naturally occurring conversation among Mandarin Chinese speaking children (ages 2 1/2–6 years) and teachers in several preschools in Taiwan. Considering babytalk as on…
The Gender of Child Discourse
Language, as both a system of meaning and a form of social action, is central to any analysis of social reproduction. Gender emerges as a major category in social reproduction and is therefore implicated in language and speech. Although scholars of language and gender studies generally have not used a post-structuralist theoretical approach, I argue for such a phenomenological and interactive perspective, which takes gender as a socially and cult…
Linguistic Anthropology
Gender and Grammar in Chinese
The significance of the encoding of sex and gender for questions about the relationship between language and culture, and between language and thought, is just beginning to be explored systematically.' Language and gender research, arising within the tradition of Western feminist theory, has overrelied on examples from IndoEuropean languages and cultures and has, moreover, not integrated this research very well with the current discourse on the n…
Cross-sex peer conflict and the discursive production of gender in a Chinese preschool in Taiwan
The Gender of Child Discourse
Language, as both a system of meaning and a form of social action, is central to any analysis of social reproduction. Gender emerges as a major category in social reproduction and is therefore implicated in language and speech. Although scholars of language and gender studies generally have not used a post-structuralist theoretical approach, I argue for such a phenomenological and interactive perspective, which takes gender as a socially and cult…
Gender and Grammar in Chinese
The significance of the encoding of sex and gender for questions about the relationship between language and culture, and between language and thought, is just beginning to be explored systematically.' Language and gender research, arising within the tradition of Western feminist theory, has overrelied on examples from IndoEuropean languages and cultures and has, moreover, not integrated this research very well with the current discourse on the n…
Chinese preschool codeswitching
Using Carol Scotton's (1983, 1988) model of codeswitching based on markedness theory I examine a type of register variation which is referred to as ‘babytalk’, ambiguously talk of babies (or young children) and talk to babies or young children. Examples are drawn from videotapes of naturally occurring conversation among Mandarin Chinese speaking children (ages 2 1/2–6 years) and teachers in several preschools in Taiwan. Considering babytalk as on…
Gender and Grammar in Chinese
The significance of the encoding of sex and gender for questions about the relationship between language and culture, and between language and thought, is just beginning to be explored systematically.' Language and gender research, arising within the tradition of Western feminist theory, has overrelied on examples from IndoEuropean languages and cultures and has, moreover, not integrated this research very well with the current discourse on the n…
Linguistic Anthropology
The Gender of Child Discourse
Language, as both a system of meaning and a form of social action, is central to any analysis of social reproduction. Gender emerges as a major category in social reproduction and is therefore implicated in language and speech. Although scholars of language and gender studies generally have not used a post-structuralist theoretical approach, I argue for such a phenomenological and interactive perspective, which takes gender as a socially and cult…
Chinese preschool codeswitching
Using Carol Scotton's (1983, 1988) model of codeswitching based on markedness theory I examine a type of register variation which is referred to as ‘babytalk’, ambiguously talk of babies (or young children) and talk to babies or young children. Examples are drawn from videotapes of naturally occurring conversation among Mandarin Chinese speaking children (ages 2 1/2–6 years) and teachers in several preschools in Taiwan. Considering babytalk as on…
Cross-sex peer conflict and the discursive production of gender in a Chinese preschool in Taiwan
Women in the New Taiwan
Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies in Language (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)