U. Philips / Susan Steele / Christine Tanz (eds.)

Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective

Herausgeber: Philips, Susan U.; Tanz, Christine; Steele, Susan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The aim of this innovative volume is to analyze both the cultural and the biological sources of gender differences in language use. The first two parts of the volume focus on cultural variation in gender-differentiated language use, comparing Western English-speaking societies with others from elsewhere in the world. Part III examines the relationship between language and the brain, showing that although there are differences in males' and females' processing of language in the brain, these do not yield any gender differences in language use. Overall, the volume points to the greater salience of cultural processes over biological processes in the shaping of gender.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521338073
• ISBN-10: 0521338077
• Artikelnr.: 21988969

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the interaction of social and biological
processes in women's and men's speech Susan U. Philips; Part I. Women's and
Men's Speech in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Introduction Susan U. Philips;
1. The womanly woman: manipulation of stereotypical and nonstereotypical
features of Japanese female speech Janet S. Shibamoto; 2. The impact of
stratification and socialization on men's and women's speech in Western
Samoa Elinor Ochs; 3. The interaction of variable syntax and discourse
structure in women's and men's speech Susan U. Philips and Anne Reynolds;
4. A diversity of voices: men's and women's speech in ethnographic
perspective Joel Sherzer; 5. Women's speech in modern Mexicano Jane H.
Hill; Part II. Gender Differences in the Language of Children: Introduction
Christine Tanz; 6. Preschool boys' and girls' language use in pretend play
Jacqueline Sachs; 7. Sex differences in parent-child interaction Jean Berko
Gleason; 8. Children's arguing Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Charles
Goodwin; 9. Do different worlds mean different words?: an example from
Papua New Guinea Bambi B. Schieffelin; Part III. Sex Differences in
Language and the Brain: Introduction Susan Steele; 10. Cerebral
organization and sex: interesting but complex Walter F. McKeever; 11. Sex
differences in the patterns of scalp-recorded electrophysiological activity
in infancy: possible implications for language development David W.
Shucard, Janet L. Shucard and David G. Thomas; References; Index.