Men's Conversation: Discourse on Constructing Masculinity

Author: (English) Jennifer Couts, translated by Liu Yili, edited by Wu Songjiang
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Publish Date: 2006-04-27
Features: What does men's conversation look like? If it's always conventional, either men belong to the strong 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 conversational resources from diverse backgrounds to answer these questions and explain men's understanding of men. Couts conducted research on many naturally occurring conversations, including all male groups, ranging from the casual chatter of workers in a break room to the conversations between carpenters in a bar after work, to discourse in academic institutions and interactions between the sexes. The focus of this book is the stories that occur in these conversations. This book uses a wide range of conversational resources from diverse backgrounds to answer questions like "What does men's conversation look like?" and "Are all male conversations and female conversations different?" and explains men's understanding of men.