Conversation and Gender

by Susan A. Speer

Book Overview

Conversation analysts have begun to challenge long-cherished assumptions about the relationship between gender and language, asking new questions about the interactional study of gender and providing fresh insights into the ways it may be studied empirically. Drawing on a lively set of audio- and video-recorded materials of real-life interactions, including domestic telephone calls, children's play, mediation sessions, police-suspect interviews, psychiatric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521696038
• ISBN13: 9780521696036
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"