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The author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen, has collected twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction. The theoretical thrust of the collection, like that of Tannen's own work, is anthropological and sociolinguistic: female and male styles are approached as different cultural practice. Beginning with Tannen's own essay arguing for the relativity of discourse strategies, the volume challenges facile generalizations about gender-based styles and explores the complex relationship between gender and language use. The chapters, some previously unpublished and some classics in the field, address discourse across the lifespan, including preschool, junior high school, and adult interaction. They explore such varied discourse contexts as preschool disputes, romantic and sexual teasing among adolescent girls, cooperative competition in adolescent girl talk, conversational storytelling, a faculty committee meeting, children in an urban black neighborhood at play, and a legal dispute in a Tenejapan village in Mexico. Two chapters review and evaluate the literature on key areas of gender-related linguistic phenomena: interruption and amount of talk. Gender and Conversational Interaction will interest general readers as well as students and scholars in a variety of disciplines including linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, women's studies, and communications.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780195081947
eBay Product ID (ePID)92120561
Product Key Features
Number of Pages342 Pages
Publication NameGender and Conversational Interaction
LanguageEnglish
SubjectZoology, Anthropology
Publication Year1993
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaSocial Psychology, Religious Sociology
AuthorDeborah Tannen
SeriesOxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Weight497 g
Additional Product Features
EditorDeborah Tannen
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States