Gender, Heteroglossia and Power

Based on an ethnographic study carried out in Spain, this text proposes a new way of analyzing the relation between language use and gender identity. The theoretical and methodological discussion is also directly relevant to many researchers dealing with the study of language in use: pragmatics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversational analysis, critical discourse analysis. As such it can be a useful tool for courses in any of these fields within higher education.