This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginets publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; languages and socio-political institutionsconstrain, but do not determine, communicative possibilities; attention to language deepens understanding of gender and sexuality, including connections to ethnicity, class, race, and other dimensions of social identity and inequality. | Making Meanings Making Lives by Sally McConnell-Ginet, Paperback | Indigo Chapters