Male / Female Language: With a Comprehensive Bibliography / Edition 2

by Mary Ritchie Key

Overview

This second edition updates and expands the first book-length examination of male and female linguistic differences. Its bibliography remains the most complete list on male/female linguistic behavior in print with the addition of over 1,000 new entries. Professionals in linguistics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, literature, and medicine, as well as other interested readers, will enjoy Mary Ritchie Key's readable discussion of the recent changes in male/female linguistic differences, as well as the enduring problems in male/female communication. She covers specific forms of communication, such as verbal and non-verbal, social dialect differences, style differences, and labels. With name and title indexes and an appendix containing guidelines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810830837
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/18/1996
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	5.72(w) x 8.68(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Mary Ritchie Key is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Irvine.

Editorial Reviews

An expansion of a paper first presented in 1970 at the American Dialect Society in New York, and the result of Key's several years of teaching sociolinguistics. Her study explores the differences in how women and men express their perceptions of one another within the power structure of society. Subjects include male and female differentiation, dialogues and styles of speech, labels and descriptors, the double standard, and nonverbal messages. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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