Conversation and Gender

by Edited by Susan A. Speer , Elizabeth Stokoe

• ISBN13: 9780521696036
• ISBN10: 0521696038
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Conversation analysts have begun to challenge long-cherished assumptions about the relationship between gender and language, asking new questions about the interactional study of gender and providing fresh insights into the ways it may be studied empirically. Drawing on a lively set of audio and video recorded materials of real-life interactions, including domestic telephone calls, children's play, mediation sessions, police-suspect interviews, psychiatric assessments, and calls to telephone helplines, this volume is the first to showcase the latest thinking and cutting-edge research of an international group of scholars working on topics at the intersection of gender and conversation analysis. Theoretically, it pushes forward the boundaries of our understanding of the relationship between conversation and gender, charting new and exciting territory. Methodologically, it offers readers a clear, practical understanding of how to analyze gender using conversation analysis, by presenting detailed demonstrations of this method in use.

Author Biography

Susan A. Speer is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Gender Talk: Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis (2005). Elizabeth Stokoe is Professor of Social Interaction in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. She is the co-author of Discourse and Identity (2006).

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Data and transcription	p. xi
An introduction to conversation and gender	p. 1
Gender, person reference and self-categorization	p. 29
The gendered 'I'	p. 31
Categories in talk-in-interaction: Gendering speaker and recipient	p. 48
Doing gender categorization: Non-recognitional person reference and the omnirelevance of gender	p. 64
Gender, repair and recipient design	p. 83
'Girl-woman-sorry!': On the repair and non-repair of consecutive gender categories	p. 85
Gender, routinization and recipient design	p. 112
Recipients designed: Tag questions and gender	p. 135
Gender and action formation	p. 153
On the role of reported, third party compliments in passing as a 'real' woman	p. 155
'D'you understand that honey?': Gender and participation in conversation	p. 183
Bids and responses to intimacy as 'gendered' enactments	p. 210
Gender identities and membership categorization practices	p. 229
Accomplishing a cross-gender identity: A case of passing in children's talk-in-interaction	p. 231
Engendering children's play: Person reference in children's conflictual interaction	p. 250
Being there for the children: The collaborative construction of gender inequality in divorce mediation	p. 272
Gender as a practical concern in children's management of play participation	p. 294
References	p. 310
Author index	p. 336
Subject index	p. 341
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