Susan Ehrlich
Professor, Linguistics and Women's Studies
Director of Undergraduate Programmes (Linguistics)

Susan Ehrlich has published in the areas of discourse analysis, language and gender, linguistic approaches to literature and second language acquisition. Her books include Point of View: A Linguistic Analysis of Literary Style (Routledge 1990), Teaching American English Pronunciation co-authored with Peter Avery (Oxford 1992) and Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (Routledge 2001).

Recent articles include:

(in press) "The Discursive Reconstruction of Sexual Consent." In D. Cameron and D. Kulick (eds.) The Language and Sexuality Reader. London: Routledge. [reprinted from Discourse & Society 9: 149-171, 1998.]

(in press) "Normative Discourses and Representations of Coerced Sex." In J. Cotterill (ed.) The Discourse of Sex Crimes. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

(in press) with Jack Sidnell. "?That?s not an assumption I think you ought to make?: Challenging Presuppositions in Inquiry Testimony." Language in Society 35.

(in press) "Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities: Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making." In J. Baxter (ed.) Speaking Out:The Female Voice in Public Contexts, (pp. 139-158). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

(2004) "Linguistic Discrimination and Violence against Women: Discursive Practices and Material Effects." In M. Bucholtz (ed.) Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries, original text by Robin Tolmach Lakoff. (pp. 223-228). New York: Oxford University Press.

(2004) "Language and Gender." In A. Davies and C. Elder (eds.) Handbook of Applied Linguistics. (pp. 304-327). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

(2003) 'Coercing Gender: Language in Sexual Assault Adjudication Processes' in J. Holmes and M. Meyerhoff (eds), Handbook of Language and Gender. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

(2002) "(Re)Contextualizing Complainants? Accounts of Sexual Assault." Forensic Linguistics 9: 193-212.

(2002) "Legal Institutions, Nonspeaking Recipiency and Participants? Orientations." Discourse & Society 13: 731-747.

(2001) 'Gendering the Learner: Sexual Harassment and Second Language Acquisition.' in A. Pavlenko, I. Piller, A. Blackledge and M. Deutsch (eds), Mutilingualism, Second Language Learning, and Gender. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

(1999) 'Communities of Practice, Gender and the Representation of Sexual Assault.' Language in Society 28: 239-256.

(1998) 'The Discursive Reconstruction of Sexual Consent.' Discourse & Society 9: 149-171.

(1998) with Ruth King. 'Gender-Based Language Reform and the (De)Politicization of the Lexicon.' in J. Cheshire and P. Trudgill (eds) Reader in Sociolinguistics. London: Edward Arnold.

(1997) 'Literary Texts and the Violation of Narrative Norms.' Journal of Narrative and Life History 7 (1-4): 321-329. Special Issue honouring the 30th Anniversary of Labov's and Waletzky's 'Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience.'

(1997) 'Gender as Social Practice: Implications for Second Language Acquistion.' Studies in Second Language Acquisition 19: 421-446. (Invited State-of-the-Art article).