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Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgements PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY1 Language and gender 2 The historical background (I) – Folklinguistics and the early grammarians3 The historical background (II) – Anthropologists and dialectologistsPART TWO: THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC EVIDENCE4 Quantitative studies 5Social networks 6 Gender differences in conversational practice 7 Conversational dominance in mixed talk 8 Same-sex talk PART THREE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES 9 Children and gender-differentiated language 10 The role of gender differences in linguistic change 11The social consequences of gender differences in language PART FOUR: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE12 New developments in language and gender research Bibliography Index