Men Talk draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium.
* Draws on rich conversational material to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium.
* Collects data from a wide range of conversations, including garage mechanics on a break, carpenters at the pub after work, and university academics chatting after hours.
* Focuses on stories, which occur within all-male conversations.
* Makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the intersection of language and masculinity.
Spis treści
1. 'We was Playing Naked Football the Other Night’: Introduction.
2. 'Good Story!’: The Formal Characteristics of Male
Narrative.
3. 'So I Thought 'Bollocks to it’: Men, Stories and
Masculinities.
4. 'Bad as My Mate’: Stories in Sequence.
5. 'She’d Made Sardines in Aspic’: Women’s Stories, Men’s
Stories and the Construction of Gender.
6. 'I’m Quite Good at Mexican Food’: Men’s Narratives in Mixed
Conversation.
7. 'Still in Shock Weren’t You Darling’: Masculinity and the
Heterosexual Couple.
8. 'There are Problems’: Men’s Talk and Contemporary
Masculinities.
Index.
O autorze
Jennifer Coates is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Surrey Roehampton. She is author of Women Talk (Blackwell, 1996) and editor of Language and Gender: A Reader (Blackwell, 1997).
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