Talking difference : on gender and language / / Mary Crawford

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815674403321
• Autore: Crawford Mary (Mary E.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, 1995
• ISBN: 9781446265734; 9781446250594; 9780803988281; 0-8039-8828-1; 1-283-88031-8; 1-4462-6573-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 207 p.) : ill
• Collana: Gender and psychology
• Disciplina: 306.4/4
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Sex differences; Women - Language; Communication - Sex differences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.[183]-199) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Talking across the Gender Gap -- Gender as Difference -- Reframing Gender and Language: a Social Constructionist Approach -- A Social Constructionist View of Language -- Organization of the Book -- Chapter 2 - The Search for a Women's Language -- Language and Woman's Place: the Influence of Robin Lakoff -- The Quest for Difference: Empirical Research on Women's Language -- Women's Language: a Research Critique -- Reframing Women's Language -- Chapter 3 - The Assertiveness Bandwagon -- Assertiveness as a Psychological Construct -- Deconstructing Assertiveness -- New Approaches to Assertiveness -- The Social Construction of the New Assertive Woman: Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 4 - Two Sexes, Two Cultures -- Cross-cultural Talk -- The Two-cultures Approach: an Evaluation -- The Bandwagon Revisited -- Miscommunication and Rape -- The Social Construction of Miscommunication -- Chapter 5 - On Conversational Humor -- Humor as Collaborative Activity -- Designed for Difference: Research on Humor -- Gender and Conversational Humor: New Approaches to ; Difference and Dominance -- Humor as a Feminist Strategy -- Feminist Humor as Political Action -- Chapter 6 - Toward a Feminist Theory of Gender and Communication -- Theories and Methods: a Plurality -- Toward a Political Feminist Psychology -- On Feminist Identity and Social Change -- Appendix: Transcribing Conventions -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book addresses such provocative questions as: Why has the study of gender and language so often focused on the limitations of women's talk? How do academic practices constrain our understanding of how gender relations are re-created and maintained in language use? Why do assertiveness texts usually ignore indirect modes of speech such as humour and storytelling?