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9780195081947
Gender and Conversational Interaction / Edition 1 available in Paperback
Gender and Conversational Interaction / Edition 1
by Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen
- ISBN-10:
- 0195081943
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195081947
- Pub. Date:
- 08/28/1993
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN-10:
- 0195081943
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195081947
- Pub. Date:
- 08/28/1993
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, USA
Gender and Conversational Interaction / Edition 1
by Deborah Tannen
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Overview
The author of the bestselling You Just Don't Understand has collected twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction that challenge facile generalizations about gender-based styles and explore the complex relationship between gender and language. 20 line drawings.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780195081947 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Publication date: | 08/28/1993 |
Series: | Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Series |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 6.13(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.97(d) |
About the Author
Georgetown University
Hometown:
Washington, D.C. metro areaDate of Birth:
June 7, 1945Place of Birth:
Brooklyn, New YorkEducation:
B.A., Harpur College, 1966, Wayne State University, 1970; M.A. in Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 1976; Ph.D., 1979Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction | 3 | |
Overview of the Chapters | 6 | |
Notes | 11 | |
References | 11 | |
I | Talking Among Friends | |
1. | "Go Get Ya a French!": Romantic and Sexual Teasing Among Adolescent Girls | 17 |
An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Approach | 19 | |
Teasing About Romantic and Sexual Behavior | 20 | |
Dealing with Multiple Social Concerns Through Teasing | 24 | |
Discussion | 29 | |
Notes | 30 | |
References | 30 | |
2. | Cooperative Competition in Adolescent "Girl Talk" | 32 |
Women and Symbolic Capital | 33 | |
Female Symbolic Capital in the High School Setting | 35 | |
The Girl Talk | 38 | |
Talk About Boys | 41 | |
Episode A | Third Parties | 41 |
Episode B | Asking Boys Out | 49 |
Episode C | Popular Boys | 52 |
Episode D | Flaws | 55 |
Conclusion | 60 | |
Notes | 60 | |
References | 61 | |
3. | Community and Contest: Midwestern Men and Women Creating Their Worlds in Conversational Storytelling | 62 |
Discourse, Gender, and World | 68 | |
Men's and Women's Narrative Worlds | 69 | |
Language and Storyworld | 71 | |
A Community Story | 74 | |
Discussion | 75 | |
Notes | 76 | |
References | 77 | |
II | Conflict Talk | |
4. | Pickle Fights: Gendered Talk in Preschool Disputes | 83 |
Introduction | 83 | |
Gender Socialization Through Language | 83 | |
Gender Socialization Through Language Socialization | 83 | |
Gender Role Socialization Through Peer Talk and Peer Play | 84 | |
Gender Differences in Dispute Management | 86 | |
Two Models of Gendered Styles in Children's Talk | 87 | |
Affiliative Versus Adversarial Styles | 87 | |
Focus on the Relationship Versus Focus on the Self | 88 | |
Female-Associated Conflict Style: Focus on the Relationship | 89 | |
Male-Associated Conflict Style: Focus on the Self | 89 | |
The Pickle Fights | 90 | |
Method | 90 | |
Differences in the Use of the Pretend Frame by the Girls and the Boys | 91 | |
The Girls' Session: Preliminary Discussion | 92 | |
The Girls' Pickle Fight | 94 | |
The Boys' Session: Preliminary Discussion | 97 | |
The Boys' Pickle Fight | 99 | |
Conclusion | 104 | |
Notes | 106 | |
References | 106 | |
5. | Tactical Uses of Stories: Participation Frameworks Within boys' and Girls' Disputes | 110 |
Introduction | 110 | |
Fieldwork and Theoretical Approach | 111 | |
Stories Within Disputes of Boys | 112 | |
Disputes Built Through Reciprocal Counters | 112 | |
Using a Story to Restructure a Dispute | 114 | |
Participant Frameworks Invoked by the Story | 115 | |
Audience Alignment Toward Opponent/Story Character | 116 | |
Building a Multiparty Consensus | 118 | |
Girls' Stories | 119 | |
Structure in Telling and Listening to Instigating Stories | 120 | |
Cited Characters and Current Participants | 122 | |
Recipient Responses | 125 | |
A Comparison of Boys' and Girls' Dispute Stories | 127 | |
Appendix A | The Children | 130 |
Appendix B | Transcription | 130 |
Appendix C | Boys' Dispute Story | 131 |
Appendix D | Girls' Dispute Story | 135 |
Notes | 141 | |
References | 142 | |
6. | Gender, Politeness, and Confrontation in Tenejapa | 144 |
Current Themes in Language and Gender Research | 145 | |
Ethnographic Background | 146 | |
Norms of Interaction | 146 | |
Casual Conversational Style | 147 | |
Arenas for Conflict | 149 | |
A Tenejapan Court Case | 149 | |
Format and Procedures | 149 | |
The Case of the Runaway Daughter-in-Law | 150 | |
Interaction in the Courtroom Context | 152 | |
Speech Event Demarcation | 152 | |
Participants | 152 | |
Turn-Taking Structure | 152 | |
Conclusion | 156 | |
Notes | 159 | |
References | 161 | |
III | The Relativity of Discourse Strategies | |
7. | The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance | 165 |
Introduction | 165 | |
Overview of the Chapter | 166 | |
Theoretical Background | 166 | |
Power and Solidarity | 166 | |
The Ambiguity of Linguistic Strategies | 167 | |
The Polysemy of Power and Solidarity | 168 | |
Similarity/Difference | 170 | |
The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies | 173 | |
Indirectness | 173 | |
Interruption | 175 | |
Silence Versus Volubility | 176 | |
Topic Raising | 178 | |
Adversativeness: Conflict and Verbal Aggression | 179 | |
Conclusion | 183 | |
Notes | 184 | |
References | 185 | |
8. | Who's Got the Floor? | 189 |
Introduction | 189 | |
Theoretical Prods for the Study | 190 | |
Initial Procedures | 191 | |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Focus | 191 | |
A New Focus | 200 | |
Turns and Floors in the Literature | 200 | |
One-At-A-Time | 200 | |
Turns | 201 | |
Floor | 204 | |
Partial Answer to the First Research Question: What Is the Floor? | 207 | |
Turn and Floor Defined | 207 | |
Procedure for Analyzing the Data Objectively | 212 | |
Preparing the Data for Analysis | 212 | |
Inducing the Variables | 213 | |
Data Analysis | 214 | |
Counted Results | 215 | |
Differences Between the Two Types of Floors | 215 | |
Gender Differences | 219 | |
Conclusions | 221 | |
Notes | 222 | |
References | 224 | |
IV | Critical Reviews of the Literature | |
9. | Women, Men, and Interruptions: A Critical Review | 231 |
Overview of Research Results: Questions in Need of Answers | 231 | |
The Use of the Term "Interruption" in This Review | 237 | |
The Functions of Interruptions | 238 | |
Interruptions as Supportive and Cooperative Speech Acts | 238 | |
Other Circumstances in Which Interruptions Do Not Violate the Speaking Rights of Others | 240 | |
The Extent to Which Interruptions Are Likely to Be Dominance-Related in Different Types of Interaction | 241 | |
"Successful" Interruptions and Dominance | 244 | |
The Functions of Interruptions: Conclusions | 246 | |
Gender and the Use of Dominance-Associated Interruptions | 247 | |
Semantic Content as a Gauge of Gender Differences With Respect to Dominance-Related Interruptions | 248 | |
Type of Context as a Gauge of Gender Differences With Respect to Dominance-Related Interruptions | 249 | |
"Successful" Interruptions as a Gauge of Gender Differences With Respect to Dominance-Related Interruptions | 250 | |
Dominance Predisposition and Power as Gauges of Gender Differences with Respect to Dominance-Related Interruptions | 251 | |
Discrimination on the Basis of Gender of Interruptee as a Gauge of Gender Differences With Respect to Dominance-Related Interruptions | 253 | |
Gender and Dominance-Associated Interruptions: Conclusions | 258 | |
Gender and Cooperative Interruptions | 258 | |
Other Factors Which May Have Affected Results in the Gender-Related Interruptions Literature | 260 | |
Effects of Subject and Situational Variables | 260 | |
Age | 261 | |
Degree of Intimacy | 261 | |
Personality Factors | 262 | |
Status/Power in the Interaction Resulting From Some Source Other Than Gender | 262 | |
Degree of Conflict Present, and the Extent to Which the Interaction is Task-Oriented | 263 | |
Natural Versus Laboratory Setting | 263 | |
Dyad Versus Group | 263 | |
Topic of Conversation | 263 | |
Change in Gender Behavior Over the Years | 264 | |
Methodological Considerations | 265 | |
Conclusions | 268 | |
Notes | 269 | |
References | 274 | |
10. | Understanding Gender Differences in Amount of Talk: A Critical Review of Research | 281 |
The Research Findings on Amount of Talk | 281 | |
The Approach to Understanding the Research Findings | 284 | |
Status Characteristics Theory | 286 | |
The Relevance of Research Activity to Amount of Talk | 287 | |
Amount of Talk in Formal Task Contexts | 288 | |
Understanding the Results | 289 | |
Amount of Talk in Formally Structured but Not Formally Task-Oriented Interaction | 294 | |
Amount of Talk in Informal Task Contexts and Non-Task-Oriented Contexts | 296 | |
Understanding Talk in Informal Contexts | 297 | |
Conclusions | 301 | |
Epilogue: Stereotypes Revisited | 302 | |
Notes | 303 | |
References | 306 | |
Contributors | 313 | |
Index | 317 |
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