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The myth of Mars and Venus / Deborah Cameron.

by Cameron, Deborah, 1958-

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Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language and languages -- Sex differences.

Communication -- Sex differences.

Sex differences (Psychology)

Interpersonal relations.

Man-woman relationships.

9780199550999 (pbk.)

vii, 196 p. ; 20 cm.

"Do men and women really speak different languages?" -- Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-191) and index.

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 of scientific research to explain what we really know and to demonstrate how this is often very different from the accounts we are familiar with from recent popular writing.

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