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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817865603321

Titolo

Gender and conversational interaction / / edited by Deborah Tannen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1993

ISBN

1-280-76025-7

0-19-535968-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 327 pages)

Collana

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

TannenDeborah

Disciplina

306.4/4

Soggetti

Conversation

Language and languages - Sex differences

Social interaction

Sociolinguistics

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.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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