Male / Female Language - With a Comprehensive Bibliography (Hardcover, Second Edition)

This second edition updates and expands the first book-length examination of male and female linguistic differences. Its bibliography remains the most complete list on male/female linguistic behavior in print with the addition of over 1,000 new entries. Professionals in linguistics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, literature, and medicine, as well as other interested readers, will enjoy Mary Ritchie Key's readable discussion of the recent changes in male/female linguistic differences, as well as the enduring problems in male/female communication. She covers specific forms of communication, such as verbal and non-verbal, social dialect differences, style differences, and labels. With name and title indexes and an appendix containing guidelines.