Men's Conversation - Discourse Constructing Masculinity

Author: (English) Jennifer Cote
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: What does men's conversation look like? If it's always conventional, either men are either assertive or quiet types, or they talk aggressively about sports, cars, and water extraction. Are these conversations right? When men talk to each other rather than to the opposite sex, is what they talk about different? Are all male conversations and female conversations different? At the turn of the century, this book uses rich conversational resources from a wide range of backgrounds to answer these questions and explain men's understanding of men. Cote investigated many naturally occurring conversations, including all male groups, ranging from the casual chatter of factory workers during breaks to the conversations between carpenters in bars after work, to the discourse in university academic institutions, and between the sexes. The focus of this book is the stories that occur in these conversations. What does men's conversation look like? If it's always conventional, either men are either assertive or quiet types, or they talk aggressively about sports, cars, and water extraction. Are these conversations right? When men talk to each other rather than to the opposite sex, is what they talk about different? Are all male conversations and female conversations different? At the turn of the century, this book uses rich conversational resources from a wide range of backgrounds to answer these questions and explain men's understanding of men. Cote investigated many naturally occurring conversations, including all male groups, ranging from the casual chatter of factory workers during breaks to the conversations between carpenters in bars after work, to the discourse in university academic institutions, and between the sexes. The focus of this book is the stories that occur in these conversations.