Talking difference : on gender and language / Mary Crawford.
"Talking Difference is a refreshing re-evaluation of current wisdom - both academic and popular - about men's and women's language. Mary Crawford critically assesses the abundant social science research of recent years, and its representation in the mass media, from talk shows to self...
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 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
- 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
- 3. The Assertiveness Bandwagon
- Assertiveness as a Psychological Construct
- Deconstructing Assertiveness
- New Approaches to Assertiveness
- The Social Construction of the New Assertive Woman: Summary and Conclusions
- 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
- 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
- 6. Toward a Feminist Theory of Gender and Communication
- Theories and Methods: a Plurality
- Toward a Political Feminist Psychology
- On Feminist Identity and Social Change
- Appendix: Transcribing Conventions
- References
- Index.