Gender and Conversational Interaction

by Deborah Tannen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195081943
• ISBN13: 9780195081947
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"