{"product_id":"gender-and-discourse-paperback","title":"Gender and Discourse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Tannen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Tannen's \u003cem\u003eYou Just Don't Understand\u003c\/em\u003e spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand each other when they talk has touched a\u003cbr\u003enerve. For years a highly respected scholar in the field of linguistics, she has now become widely known for her work on how conversational style differences associated with gender affect relationships. Her life work has demonstrated how close and intelligent analysis of conversation can reveal the\u003cbr\u003eextraordinary complexities of social relationships--including relationships between men and women. \u003cbr\u003e Now, in \u003cem\u003eGender and Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e, Tannen has gathered together six of her scholarly essays, including her newest and previously unpublished work in which language and gender are examined through the lens of \"sex-class-linked\" patterns, rather than \"sex-linked\" patterns. These essays provide a\u003cbr\u003etheoretical backdrop to her best-selling books--and an informative introduction which discusses her field of linguistics, describes the research methods she typically uses, and addresses the controversies surrounding her field as well as some misunderstandings of her work. (She argues, for instance, \u003cbr\u003ethat her cultural approach to gender differences does not deny that men dominate women in society, nor does it ascribe gender differences to women's \"essential nature.\") The essays themselves cover a wide range of topics. In one, she analyzes a number of conversational strategies--such as\u003cbr\u003einterruption, topic raising, indirection, and silence--and shows that, contrary to much work on language and gender, no strategy exclusively expresses dominance or submissiveness in conversation--interruption (or overlap) can be supportive, silence and indirection can be used to control. It is the\u003cbr\u003einteractional context, the participants' individual styles, and the interaction of their styles, Tannen shows, that result in the balance of power. She also provides a fascinating analysis of four groups of males and females (second-, sixth-, and tenth-grade students, and twenty-five year olds)\u003cbr\u003econversing with their best friends, and she includes an early article co-authored with Robin Lakoff that presents a theory of conversational strategy, illustrated by analysis of dialogue in Ingmar Bergman's \u003cem\u003eScenes from a Marriage\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e Readers interested in the theoretical framework behind Tannen's work will find this volume fascinating. It will be sure to interest anyone curious about the crucial yet often unnoticed role that language and gender play in our daily lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Tannen\u003c\/strong\u003e is University Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of the best-selling \u003cem\u003eYou Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTalking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThat's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations With Others\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eConversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends\u003c\/em\u003e, and most recently, \u003cem\u003eTalking From 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace: Language, Sex, and Power\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 7.98 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 04, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724622401599,"sku":"9780195101249","price":49.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1c77ad1599fdfd2f74ab1e6d2e9e6368_3b570a01-1d0c-41d7-9cb6-bed331d59307.webp?v=1765103318","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/gender-and-discourse-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}