Download or read book Language and Masculinity written by Sally Johnson and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-12-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist linguistics has come of age. Yet, in more than two decades of research, male speaking patterns have largely been taken for granted. This is the first extensive account of men's language - of male ways of speaking and of language in the construction of masculinity.