[Air-L] OT request: Gender Communication textbooks?

[Christian Nelson]

Tannen's work has been thoroughly discredited regarding its lack of  
evidence. See:
Goldsmith, D. J., & Fulfs, P. A. (1999). "You just don't have the  
evidence": An analysis of claims and evidence in Deborah Tannen's You  
just don't understand. In M. E. Roloff (Ed.), Communication yearbook  
22 (pp. 1-49). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
It is also thoroughly confused--she vacillates between saying that men  
and women differ in their focus on negative vs. positive face and  
saying that they differ in terms of how they communicate regardless of  
focus. To see how shaky her logic and evidence is, see her film "He  
said, she said" in which she presents both claims just mentioned in  
rapid succession and also presents video taped "evidence" for her  
positions that actually seem to show the opposite of what she claims  
they do.
--Christian Nelson

On Oct 18, 2008, at 6:12 PM, John B. White, PhD wrote:

> Stephanie Bennett wrote:
>> Julia Wood's GENDERED LIVES may work for you.
>
> As additional readings...maybe Dr. Tannen's texts:
>
> You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
> Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work
>
> JW
>
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