Gender and Conversational Interaction (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) [Hardcover]

Deborah Tannen (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0195081935 | ISBN-13: 978-0195081930 | Publication Date: September 23, 1993

This volume contains a number of essays on gender-related differences in conversational interactions. The essays comprise much of the research underlying the author's earlier work, "You Just Don't Understand", and take a similar anthropological and sociolinguistic approach.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This will be an excellent text for gender classes and for social psychology classes. Current, well-researched chapters with generous references, solid data, and a respectable base of theory."--M. Karraker, University of St. Thomas

"This volume is a useful addition to the language and gender literature....Everyone will find something of value in this volume, and the reprinting of Edelsky's fine paper cannot be too loudly applauded."--Applied Linguistics

"This important volume provides sophisticated theorizing on both gender and discourse. Gender in Conversational Interaction will help us clarify complex issues of theoretical and methodological research on the study of gender and language, and it will be immensely useful in courses on the topic.... There is a fine line between generalization and a stereotype; because of this insightful book, progress will be made in knowing where that line lies."--Language in Society

"The empirical studies and critical reviews Tannen has collected cogently explain why we can no longer be satisfied with facile generalizations about differences between men's and women's discourse."--Discourse and Society

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Deborah Tannen is at Georgetown University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 23, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195081935
• ISBN-13: 978-0195081930
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,445,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Feminist Rants, July 14, 2003

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J. L. Ennis "daisygrl1268" (Berlin, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gender and Conversational Interaction (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) (Paperback)

Again, this was a book I had to read for a class. I did not choose to read it... I would say that people need to worry more about the quality of their work than what people are going to think about it in the long run. The way people speak when referring to genders does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the speakers as this book seems to suggest.