The twelve papers in this volume, which concerns the interrelationship of language and sex, include: (1) "Difference and Dominance: An Overview of Language, Gender, and Society," by Barrie Thorne and Nancy Henley; (2) "Women's Speech: Separate But Unequal?" by Cheris Kramer; (3) "The Making of a Nonsexist Dictionary," by Alma Graham; (4) "The Semantic Derogation of Woman," by Muriel R. Shulz; (5) "The Sex of the Speaker as a Sociolinguistic Variable," by Marjorie Swacker; (6) "Male-Female Intonation Patterns in American English," by Ruth M. Brend; (7) "Sex, Covert Prestige, and Linguistic Change in the Urban British English of Norwich," by Peter Trudgill; (8) "Sex Roles, Interruptions and Silences in Conversation," by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West; (9) "Sex Differentiation in Language," by Ann Bodine; (10) "Cues to the Identification of Sex in Children's Speech," by Jacqueline Sachs; (11) "Teacher-Child Verbal Interaction: An Approach to the Study of Sex Differences," by Louise Cherry; and (12) "Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication," by Nancy Henley. A 100-page annotated bibliography on sex differences in language, speech and nonverbal communication is also provided. A list of relevant women's groups (in disciplines related to the study of sex differences in communication) and an author index to the bibliography complete the volume. (CLK)