Gender and Discourse

The bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand has gathered together six of her scholarly essays, including her newest and previously unpublished work in which language and gender are examined through the lens of "sex-class-linked" patterns, rather than "sex-linked" patterns.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 an informative introduction to linguistics.

About the author

Deborah Tannen is University Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse, That's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations With Others, Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends, and most recently, Talking From 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace: Language, Sex, and Power.

Summary

Tannen collects five of her published essays on gender and language, which provide a background as well as a response to her bestselling You Just Don't Understand (1990). She adds an introduction that discusses the surprising reactions to that book and explains how these essays deal with the questions raised by the book's critics.

Additional text

Deborah Tannen is the archangel of clarity ... She makes the art of listening less scary and more fascinating than any other sociolinguist or therapist writing today.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Tannen, Tannen Deborah
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.1996
• EAN: 9780195101249
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510124-9
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 136 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 204 g
• Illustrations: line drawings
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Gender studies, gender groups, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc