Men's Conversation (Discourse Constructing Masculinity)

Author: (English) Jennifer Couts, translated by Liu Yili, edited by Wu Songjiang
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: What does men's conversation look like? If it's always conventional, either the men belong to the dominant or quiet type, 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 a wide range of background contexts and rich conversational resources to answer these questions and explain men's understanding of men. Couts 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 academic institutions and interactions between the sexes. The focus of this book is the stories that occur in these conversations.