SLAVIC GENDER LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Background and Introduction -- Preliminary Russian research on gender linguistics: Zemskaja's "Problems for Study" (1993) -- From "folklinguistics" to Russian contributions to gender linguistics -- Phonetics -- Conversational structures -- Interruptions in informal Russian speech environments -- Conclusions from Zemskaja et al. and questions for further study -- Referential knowledge in discourse: Interpretation of {I, you} in male and female speech -- Introduction -- 1. TDM and the meaning of particles -- 2. Interaction of propositional and referential knowledge in discourse and the particle ved' -- 3. Dominance vs. subordination in discourse -- 4. Evidence from distribution of particles in literary texts -- 5. The source of the stereotypical view of male/female roles in discourse -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Gender, iconicity, and agreement in Russian -- Introduction -- 2. Iconicity and inanimates -- 3. Behavior of iconic pairs -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- A gender linguistic analysis of Mrozek's Tango -- Introduction -- 1. Differences in male and female characters' speech -- 2. Implications of the differences in female and male characters' speech -- 3. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Gender linguistic analysis of Russian children'sliterature -- Introduction -- I. Gender distinctions in Russian -- 2. Nursery-level texts -- 3. An upper-level pre-school text -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources -- References -- Gender roles and perception: Russian diminutives in discourse -- The Second St. Petersburg Study (SP2) -- Lexical forms commonly used in discourse with small children -- Naming -- Source of diminutives in discourse -- Defining the addressee.

Emotional responses to diminutive usage in discourse -- Frequency of diminutive usage -- Lexical forms in discourse -- Conclusions and hypotheses for future research -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 (question 6) -- Appendix 3 (Questions 8 & 9) -- Appendix 3: (Questions 8 & 9) -- Gender and conversational management in Russian -- Introduction -- 1. Methodology -- 2. Interruptions -- 3. Questions -- 4. Evaluation and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- "Teacher talk" in the Russian and Americanclassroom:Dominance and cultural framing -- Introduction -- 1. Formulation of the project -- 2. Methodology and background -- 3. Hypotheses -- 4. Metapragmatic considerations in the "discourse occasion" -- 5. Discussion of coding classification -- 6. English data: Negotiation and "Instructional chains" -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Speaker, gender, and the choice of 'communicatives'in contemporary Russian -- Background -- Introduction -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- The rule of femininization in Russian -- Introduction -- 1. Methodology and delineation of database -- Notes -- References -- Gender-based results of a quantitative analysis of spoken Czech: Contribution to the Czech national corpus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. General characteristics of the subcorpus of spoken Czech -- 4. Quantitative sociolinguistic analysis of spoken Czech -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Whence virility? The rise of a new gender distinction in the history of Slavic -- Introduction -- 1. Animacy sparks virility -- 2. Former ü -stem endings fuel the virility fire -- 3. Former dual morphemes add more fuel to virility -- 4. Virility in Slavic: An overview -- 5. Endnote -- Notes -- References -- Index.