Gendering Talk

by Robert Hopper

Book Overview

Men and women are not from separate planets. Making an original and significant argument, Gendering Talk puts gendered communication in perspective by showing that the problem with male/female communication is not how men and women talk to each other, but in how they listen.
By closely examining the details of actual conversations between women and men--particularly the conversations of people "coupling"--Hopper draws on theories of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870136364
• ISBN13: 9780870136368
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"