Ervin-Tripp Publications on Gender Issues

Ervin, S. M. (1962). The connotations of gender. Word, 18, 249-261.

Colson, E., E. Scott, & S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1971). Report of the subcommittee on the status of academic women on the Berkeley campus. University of California.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1975). What do women sociolinguists want?: Prospects for a research field. In B. L. Dubois & I. Crouch (Eds.), The sociology of the languages of American women. San Antonio: New Mexico State University. Proceedings, Conference on the Sociology of Language of American Women (PISE Papers).

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1978). What do women sociolinguists want? Prospects for a research field. International Journal of Sociology of Language, 17, 17-28.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1981). How to make and understand a request. In Parret, H., Sbisa, M., and Verschueren, J. (Eds.), Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1987). About, by, and to women. In Brouwer, D. & de Haan, D. (Eds.), Women's language, socialization, and self-image. Dordrecht and Providence: Foris.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. & M. D. Lampert (1992 ). Gender differences in the construction of humorous talk. In Hall, K., Buchholtz, E. & Moonwoman, B. (Eds.), Locating power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley, CA.: Berkeley Women and Language Group, Linguistics Department, University of California, pp. 108-117.

Lampert, M. & S. Ervin-Tripp. (1998) Exploring paradigms: The study of gender and sense of humor near the end of the twentieth century. The sense of humor : explorations of a personality characteristic. In Willibald Ruch (ed.). (pp. 231-270) Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter. Series title: Humor research ; 3.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2001). The place of gender in developmental pragmatics: Cultural factors. Research on Language in Social Interaction, 34:131-147.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (in press) Techtalk as group talk.In her own voice: collected writings of Robin Tolmach Lakoff (ed. Laurel A. Sutton (Ed.), Oxford University Press.

Lampert, M.D. & Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2006). Risky laughter: Teasing and self-directed joking among male and female friends. Journal of Pragmatics. 38, 51-72.