03765nam 2200649Ia 450 991081567440332120200520144314.09781446265734(electronic bk.)9781446250594(ebook)97808039882810-8039-8828-11-283-88031-81-4462-6573-0(MiAaPQ)EBC1024129(Au-PeEL)EBL1024129(CaPaEBR)ebr10567083(CaONFJC)MIL419281(OCoLC)823717223(OCoLC)1007861181(StDuBDS)EDZ0000064015(OCoLC)1204299750(FINmELB)ELB135635(CKB)1000000000714345(EXLCZ)99100000000071434519950804d1995 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTalking difference on gender and language /Mary Crawford1st ed.London ;Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE19951 online resource (xiii, 207 p.) illGender and psychologyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4462-5059-8 0-8039-8827-3 Includes bibliographical references (p.[183]-199) and index.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.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?Gender and psychology.Language and languagesSex differencesWomenLanguageCommunicationSex differencesLanguage and languagesSex differences.WomenLanguage.CommunicationSex differences.306.4/4Crawford Mary(Mary E.)741622MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815674403321Talking difference3919766UNINA