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This chapter is in two main sections. The first deals with the theoretical question of whether, and in what sense, discourse(s) can legitimately be characterized as ‘damaging’. The second looks at the related question of feminist intervention in discourse — in particular, the different forms this has taken, and different theoretical approaches here.
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This theme has been taken up again recently by Hines (1999) in a paper entitled ‘Rebaking the Pie: The Woman as Dessert Metaphor’.
See also Candace West’s (2002) ‘Critical comment’ on Baxter’s paper, and Baxter’s dignified reply (both also in Discourse and Society 13/6), in particular in relation to the category gender in Baxter’s study, the use of CA and the value of PDA.
Importantly, these questions are still of practical and theoretical interest, as Anne Pauwels’ Women Changing Language (1998) and Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Buf3mann’s Gender across Languages: the Linguistic Representation of Women and Men (2001) show; see also Livia (1999).
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Sunderland, J. (2004). ‘Damaging Discourses’ and Intervention in Discourse. In: Gendered Discourses. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505582_9
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