Causal explanations are essential for theory building. In focusing on causal mechanisms rather than descriptive effects, the goal of this volume is to increase

In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, i

The author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen, has collected twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interactio

In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, i

For many years the dominant focus in gender relations has been the differences between men and women. Authors such as Deborah Tannen (You Just Don't Understand)