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Gender and
Conversational Interaction
Edited by Deborah Tannen
Oxford University Press, 1993
This volume gathers twelve papers about gender‑related
patterns in conversational interaction. The theoretical thrust of the
collection is anthropological and sociolinguistic: female and male styles are
approached as "cultural" practices. Beginning with Tannen's own essay arguing for the relativity
of discourse strategies, the volume challenges facile generalizations about
gender‑based styles and explores the complex relationship between gender
and language use. The chapters, some previously unpublished and some classics
in the field, address discourse across the lifespan, including preschool,
junior high school, and adult interaction. They explore such varied discourse
contexts as preschool disputes, romantic and sexual teasing among adolescent
girls, cooperative competition in adolescent "girl talk,"
conversational storytelling, a faculty committee meeting, children in an urban
black neighborhood at play, and a legal dispute in a Tenejapan village in
Mexico. Two chapters review and evaluate the literature on key areas of gender‑related
linguistic phenomena: interruption and amount of talk. Gender and Conversational Interaction will interest general readers
as well as students and scholars in a variety of disciplines including
linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, women's
studies, and communications.
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