LEADER 03765nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910815674403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781446265734$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a9781446250594$b(ebook) 010 $a9780803988281 010 $a0-8039-8828-1 010 $a1-283-88031-8 010 $a1-4462-6573-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1024129 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1024129 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10567083 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL419281 035 $a(OCoLC)823717223 035 $a(OCoLC)1007861181 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000064015 035 $a(OCoLC)1204299750 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB135635 035 $a(CKB)1000000000714345 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000714345 100 $a19950804d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTalking difference $eon gender and language /$fMary Crawford 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aThousand Oaks, Calif. $cSAGE$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 207 p.) $cill 225 1 $aGender and psychology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4462-5059-8 311 $a0-8039-8827-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.[183]-199) and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 8 $aThe book addresses such provocative questions as: Why has the study of gender and language so often focused on the limitations of women's talk? How do academic practices constrain our understanding of how gender relations are re-created and maintained in language use? Why do assertiveness texts usually ignore indirect modes of speech such as humour and storytelling? 410 0$aGender and psychology. 606 $aLanguage and languages$xSex differences 606 $aWomen$xLanguage 606 $aCommunication$xSex differences 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xSex differences. 615 0$aWomen$xLanguage. 615 0$aCommunication$xSex differences. 676 $a306.4/4 700 $aCrawford$b Mary$g(Mary E.)$0741622 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815674403321 996 $aTalking difference$93919766 997 $aUNINA