People invariably convey impressions about themselves in their everyday verbal
interactions. Individuals may manage these portrayals more carefully in the context of official …

One approach to meaning is to study texts or discourse in specific contexts (see, for
example, Lutz, 1990, who links everyday discourse on emotion to gender and power). My …

This article combines feminist perspectives on women and language with a recent emphasis
in qualitative methods on linguistic aspects of interview research. The feminist proposition …

This chapter presents a discourse analysis of a graffiti text concerning an alleged rape. The
text is taken from the wall of a women's bathroom stall at the University of California at …

The wealth of knowledge we have been given contributes to a more in-depth and complex
understanding of the relationships women who engage in street sex work have with their …

T he simple thing to say is that interview research is research conducted by talk-ing with
people. It involves gathering informants' reports and stories, learning about their …

This article examines two contrasting interviews—with an Anglo and a Puerto Rican woman—
and concludes that gender congruence does not help an Anglo interviewer make sense of …

The Female Voice Page 1 The Female Voice Olajide Olagunju (olajide.olagunju@bgu.edu)
___________________________________________________ “The voice is Jacob’s, but the …