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Book SynopsisTannen collects five of her published essays on gender and language, which provide a background as well as a response to her bestselling You Just Don't Understand (1990). She adds an introduction that discusses the surprising reactions to that book and explains how these essays deal with the questions raised by the book's critics.
Trade Reviewsets a standard for contemporary work on gender and discourse analysis...the empirical studies and critical reviews Tannen has collected (half of which are published here for the first time) cogently explain why we can no longer be satisfied with facile generalizations about differences between men's and women's discourse. * Discourse and Society *
if one does not have the five articles already copied from the original sources, this is a worthwhile book, especially now that it has been released in paperback * Salvatore Attardo, Youngstown State University, Discourse & Society, Vol. 8(3) 1997 *
