ABSTRACT
This chapter presents collaboration between a feminist economist and a feminist linguist. It addresses the community of linguists interested in language and gender issues, and discusses relationship among stories which are told in economics, the language in which they are told, the communities of practice which they reflect and the communities of practitioners which they shape. The chapter also examines that the current conversation among economists is positioned by the interests and experiences of the predominant practitioners of the discipline. Contemporary mainstream economics is dominated to an astonishing degree by one analytic framework which traces its roots to the philosophical work of Adam Smith in the eighteenth century: the neoclassical theory of economic behaviour. It exploits the sociocultural linguistic narrative analysis methodology to deconstruct disciplinary authority in economics by making explicit the situated nature of mainstream economic texts. Finally, it considers some dimensions of language used in all storytelling.
