Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- Overview of the Chapters -- Notes -- References -- I: Talking Among Friends -- 1. "Go Get Ya a French!": Romantic and Sexual Teasing Among Adolescent Girls -- An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Approach -- Teasing About Romantic and Sexual Behavior -- Dealing with Multiple Social Concerns Through Teasing -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 2. Cooperative Competition in Adolescent "Girl Talk," -- Women and Symbolic Capital -- Female Symbolic Capital in the High School Setting -- The Girl Talk -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Community and Contest: Midwestern Men and Women Creating Their Worlds in Conversational Storytelling -- Discourse, Gender, and World -- Men's and Women's Narrative Worlds -- Language and Storyworld -- A Community Story -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- II: Conflict Talk -- 4. Pickle Fights: Gendered Talk in Preschool Disputes -- Introduction -- Gender Socialization Through Language -- Two Models of Gendered Styles in Children's Talk -- The Pickle Fights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. Tactical Uses of Stories: Participation Frameworks Within Boys' and Girls' Disputes -- Introduction -- Fieldwork and Theoretical Approach -- Stories Within Disputes of Boys -- Girls' Stories -- Structure in Telling and Listening to Instigating Stories -- A Comparison of Boys' and Girls' Dispute Stories -- Appendix A: The Children -- Appendix B: Transcription -- Appendix C: Boys' Dispute Story -- Appendix D: Girls' Dispute Story -- Notes -- References -- 6. Gender, Politeness, and Confrontation in Tenejapa -- Current Themes in Language and Gender Research -- Ethnographic Background -- A Tenejapan Court Case -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- III: The Relativity of Discourse Strategies.

7. The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance -- Introduction -- Overview of the Chapter -- Theoretical Background -- The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8. Who's Got the Floor? -- Introduction -- Theoretical Prods for the Study -- Initial Procedures -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Focus -- Turns and Floors in the Literature -- Partial Answer to the First Research Question: What Is the Floor? -- Procedure for Analyzing the Data Objectively -- Counted Results -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- IV: Critical Reviews of the Literature -- 9. Women, Men, and Interruptions: A Critical Review -- Overview of Research Results: Questions in Need of Answers -- The Use of the Term "Interruption" in This Review -- The Functions of Interruptions -- Gender and the Use of Dominance-Associated Interruptions -- Gender and Cooperative Interruptions -- Other Factors Which May Have Affected Results in the Gender-Related Interruptions Literature -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 10. Understanding Gender Differences in Amount of Talk: A Critical Review of Research -- The Research Findings on Amount of Talk -- The Approach to Understanding the Research Findings -- Status Characteristics Theory -- The Relevance of Research Activity to Amount of Talk -- Amount of Talk in Formal Task Contexts -- Understanding the Results -- Amount of Talk in Formally Structured but Not Formally Task-Oriented Interaction -- Amount of Talk in Informal Task Contexts and Non-Task-Oricnted Contexts -- Understanding Talk in Informal Contexts -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Stereotypes Revisited -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.