Talking Difference : On Gender and Language.

By:

Crawford, Mary

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Gender and Psychology seriesPublication details: London : SAGE Publications, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781446265734
1446265730
1446250598
9781446250594
0803988273
9780803988279
0803988281
9780803988286
1283880318
9781283880312

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

306.44

LOC classification:

P120.S48

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Contents:

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 and CommunicationTheories and Methods: a Plurality; Toward a Political Feminist Psychology; On Feminist Identity and Social Change; Appendix: Transcribing Conventions; References; Index.

Summary: '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 research. The volume is well-structured and readable; it will prove very valuable in und.

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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 research. The volume is well-structured and readable; it will prove very valuable in und.