GENDER AND DISCOURSE
Deborah Tannen
Oxford University Press, 1994
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After reading this book, the reader should be able to better understand the field of sociolinguistics, its research methods, the methods used in Dr. Tannen's research, some controversies involved in this research, and be able to identify gender-specific patterns of communications, differentiate them from purposeful attempts to dominate interactions or to miscommunicate, and be able to choose appropriate modes of speech.
Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University and author of bestsellers TALKING FROM NINE TO FIVE and THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT! She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Tannen's work has hit a special chord among all those interested in the interpersonal skills of communication. Dr. Tannen has made the specific conversational styles of men and women and the influence of culture, her particular topics of research.
6 CE credits; 203 pages
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