Conclusions

This collection of diverse essays on the theme of language and gender has aimed to encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. Rather than simply discussing language and gender so that colleagues and fellow researchers can learn about our work, it is an important part of feminist praxis that we should write in an accessible way so that we make our work available to other researchers from other fields. In this way, we will be able to gain insights from reading about ‘our’ subject from other perspectives and we will also see our focus and methodology defamiliarised in the process. A further benefit from this interdisciplinary work is that we can accord other perspectives on language and gender the same seriousness that we accord our own discipline's perspective.