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Gender and conversational interaction / edited by Deborah Tannen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
- Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conversation.
- Language and languages--Sex differences.
- Language and languages.
- Social interaction.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 327 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 pr
- Contents:
- Contents; Editor's Introduction; Overview of the Chapters; Notes; References; I: Talking Among Friends; II: Conflict Talk; III: The Relativity of Discourse Strategies; IV: Critical Reviews of the Literature; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-76025-7
- 0-19-535968-2
- OCLC:
- 252639135
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