Women and men speaking : frameworks for analysis

This significant study of the interaction\ua0between language and sex\ua0raises some fundamental questions about the relationship between society and culture and\ua0language use and structure. Interdisciplinary in scope,\ua0the author's theoretical frameworks draw on work done in anthropology. sociology, and psycholinguistics, incorporating reviews of past work on language and sex, original new research, and guidelines for future study.\ua0Women and\ua0Men Speaking is ideal for courses in sociolinguistics, anthropology, speech communication, and sociology dealing with language and sex. It is recommended reading for sociolinguistics, who until recently paid little attention to the ways sex affects our speech and our assumptions about the speech behavior of others