Talking Difference
eBook - PDF

Talking Difference

On Gender and Language

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Talking Difference

On Gender and Language

About this book

`I love the warmth and wit in this book, but I say this in no way to detract from the seriousness of its subject matter and its incisive treatment by Mary Crawford... this is a great book and an important book which articulates current critical thinking about research around gender and language. Mary Crawford writes brilliantly, powerfully and lucidly... I thoroughly recommend it? - British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section Newsletter

This refreshing re-evaluation of current wisdom - both academic and popular - about men?s and women?s language critically assesses the abundant social science research of recent years and its representation in the mass media. Exploring a wide range of topics, from talk shows to self-help books, Mary Crawford offers a new understanding of the role of language practices in both maintaining - and disrupting - gender inequality.

The book addresses such provocative questions as: Why has the study of gender and language so often focused on the limitations of women?s talk? How do academic practices constrain our understanding of how gender relations are re-created and maintained in language use? Why do assertiveness texts usually ignore indirect modes of speech such as humour and storytelling?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 - Talking across the Gender Gap
  5. Gender as Difference
  6. Reframing Gender and Language: a Social Constructionist Approach
  7. A Social Constructionist View of Language
  8. Organization of the Book
  9. Chapter 2 - The Search for a Women's Language
  10. Language and Woman's Place: the Influence of Robin Lakoff
  11. The Quest for Difference: Empirical Research on Women's Language
  12. Women's Language: a Research Critique
  13. Reframing Women's Language
  14. Chapter 3 - The Assertiveness Bandwagon
  15. Assertiveness as a Psychological Construct
  16. Deconstructing Assertiveness
  17. New Approaches to Assertiveness
  18. The Social Construction of the New Assertive Woman: Summary and Conclusions
  19. Chapter 4 - Two Sexes, Two Cultures
  20. Cross-cultural Talk
  21. The Two-cultures Approach: an Evaluation
  22. The Bandwagon Revisited
  23. Miscommunication and Rape
  24. The Social Construction of Miscommunication
  25. Chapter 5 - On Conversational Humor
  26. Humor as Collaborative Activity
  27. Designed for Difference: Research on Humor
  28. Gender and Conversational Humor: New Approaches to Difference and Dominance
  29. Humor as a Feminist Strategy
  30. Feminist Humor as Political Action
  31. Chapter 6 - Toward a Feminist Theory of Gender and Communication
  32. Theories and Methods: a Plurality
  33. Toward a Political Feminist Psychology
  34. On Feminist Identity and Social Change
  35. Appendix: Transcribing Conventions
  36. References
  37. Index