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The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages?
Deborah Cameron
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Description for The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages?
Paperback. Cameron debunks the myths about language and the sexes propagated in recent popular writing by drawing on more than 30 years of scientific research in language and gender studies. She explains what the findings really say about men and women and the way they communicate. Essential reading, whatever planet you come from. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 224.
Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - can have unforeseen but far-reaching consequences in many spheres of life, from attitudes to the phenomenon of 'date-rape' to expectations of achievement at school, and potential discrimination in the work-place. In this wide-ranging and thoroughly readable book, Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University and author of a number of leading texts in the field of language and gender studies, draws on over 30 years ... Read more
Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - can have unforeseen but far-reaching consequences in many spheres of life, from attitudes to the phenomenon of 'date-rape' to expectations of achievement at school, and potential discrimination in the work-place. In this wide-ranging and thoroughly readable book, Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University and author of a number of leading texts in the field of language and gender studies, draws on over 30 years ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199550999
SKU
V9780199550999
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About Deborah Cameron
Deborah Cameron is Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford. An internationally-known researcher in the field of language and gender studies, she is the author / editor of several academic books on the subject, as well as many articles.
Reviews for The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages?
a brilliant and timely book
Katharine Viner, The Guardian
In this vigorously argued book, [Cameron] also combats the cliché by example, writing in an enjoyable mode of pugnacious sarcasm
Steven Poole, The Guardian
Cameron, skilled at deflating the sweeping generalisations of others...
The Sunday Times
Cameron's wry, measured dismemberment of these stereotypes makes for ... Read more
Katharine Viner, The Guardian
In this vigorously argued book, [Cameron] also combats the cliché by example, writing in an enjoyable mode of pugnacious sarcasm
Steven Poole, The Guardian
Cameron, skilled at deflating the sweeping generalisations of others...
The Sunday Times
Cameron's wry, measured dismemberment of these stereotypes makes for ... Read more