The present study basically conducted a qualitative-oriented research to identify the articulating and listening problems of eleven AE vowels for Taiwanese eighth graders. It aimed to examine the relationship between production and perception of English vowels. Gender differences were probed under this sound pronunciation and discrimination framework. A vowel articulating test followed by a vow...

In this article we consider the example of gender studies as an interdisciplinary field, and argue that gender studies, and women’s studies, from which gender studies developed, has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity. By thinking about the trajectory of women’s studies, feminist thinking and gender studies, we suggest that this has always been an interdisciplinary field of study....

Abstract In this article, the author argues that a decolonial perspective on gender means conceptualizing it as always already trans. The object of investigation is category and studies field knowledge. To discuss what decolonizing trans/gender in Europe could mean, aims to bring different strands together have been held apart so far: resistance against global attacks studies, transphobic femin...

In the present paper we analyze how divergence in language use across genders has received increasing scholarly attention since late 1960s and –especially– early 1970s. While research on field is of-tentimes based researcher introspection (Lakoff 1973), at this time already find certain scholars that ap-proach matter from a purely empirical perspective (Labov 1966). Since very precursors of gen...