CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors
Prologue, by Edward R. Barret
Introduction, by Judith Baxter
PART I MEDIA DISCOURSE
1Enforcing gender via directives in female adolescent magazines: a contrastive view in English and Spanish Mercedes Díez Prados
2Official and unofficial propaganda: old sexism (and, racism and classism) in new guises Joanne Neff Van Aertselaer
3Deconstructing ‘mean girls’: impolite verbal behaviours, on/offline self-representations and evaluative beliefs Antonio García-Gómez
4Help! The negotiation of discursive practices on domestic violence in an online public discussion forum Sandra Vázquez Hermosilla and Gora Zaragoza Ninet
5Claiming women’s rights through cartoons: the demand for a work-life balance María del Mar Rivas Carmona
PART II NEW TECHNOLOGIES
6The construction of adolescents’ peer identity through hyperbole on social networking sites Carmen Santamaría-García
7A pragmatic and multimodal analysis of emoticons and gender in social networks Carmen Maíz-Arévalo
8Adolescents’ language in blogs: a case study of female and male bloggers Rosa Muñoz Luna and Antonio Jurado Navas
PART III HIGHER EDUCATION CONTEXT
9Representations of gender in English and Spanish maritime engineering journals: a contrastive analysis Silvia Molina Plaza
10Genre and professional identity: an exploratory study on the female student teachers’ evaluation of experience in EFL Isabel Alonso Belmonte
11Gender styles in teaching: the use of hyperbole in teachers’ follow-up moves Laura Cano Mora
