Gender and discourse

摘要: Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for more than three years (in cloth and paper) sold over a million half copies. Clearly, insights into how why women men so often misunderstand each other when they talk touched nerve. For an internationally known highly respected scholar in field of linguistics, she now become widely her work language both reflects perpetuates relationships between women. Her life demonstrated close intelligent analysis conversation can reveal extraordinary complexities social relationships-including Now, Gender Discourse, Tannen gathered together five scholarly essays-which provide theoretical backdrop to bestselling books-and informative introduction which discusses describes research methods typically uses, addresses controversies surrounding as well some misunderstandings work. (She argues, instance, that cultural approach gender differences does not deny dominate society, nor it ascribe women's "essential nature.") The essays themselves cover wide range topics. In one, analyses number conversational strategies-such interruption, topic raising, indirection, silence-and shows that, contrary much gender, no strategy leads inflexibly dominance or submissiveness conversation-interruption (or overlap) be supportive, silence indirection used control. It is interactional context, participants' individual styles, interaction their shows, result balance power. She also provides fascinating four groups males females (second-, sixth-, tenth-grade students, 25 year olds) conversing with best friends, includes early article co-authored Robin Lakoff presents theory strategy, illustrated by dialogue Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From Marriage. Readers interested framework behind will find this volume fascinating. sure interest anyone curious about crucial yet unnoticed role play our daily lives.