Talking Difference: On Gender and Language

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'Talking Difference provides an excellent critical review of a good selection of the research in language and gender published over the last 20 years, including a substantial amount from the area of psychology ... I found this an exhilarating book, written with energy and wit. Crawford maintains a consistently critical approach, identifying contradictions and ambiguities in popular theories of gender difference, and exposing conceptual and methodological weaknesses in language and gender resear…

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Full title :Talking Difference : On Gender and Language.

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Publication Date:1995.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SAGE Publications
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1995.

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Description:1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781446265734, 1446265730, 1446250598, 9781446250594, 0803988273, 9780803988279, 0803988281, 9780803988286, 1283880318, 9781283880312
oclc:ocn823717223
LC Classification:P120.S48
Dewey Decimal:306.44

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 AssertivenessThe 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 an…

Subjects

Communication -- Différences entre sexes Communication -- Sex differences Femmes -- Langage Langage et langues -- Différences entre… Language and languages -- Sex differenc… LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Women -- Language