Beginning with Tannen's own essay arguing for the relativity of discourse strategies, the volume challenges facile generalizations about gender-based styles and explores the ...

The result is a remarkable synthesis, which reflects well the subtleties of experience and yet avoids the pitfalls of arbitrary classification and facile generalization.

Or do you always make facile generalizations based on superficial things like "those people aren't like me". I have read it, and while it is an overly long rehash of basic human ...

The empirical studies and critical reviews Tannen has collected cogently explain why we can no longer be satisfied with facile generalizations about differences between men's and ...

As difficult as it might be, however, it is also ultimately much more rewarding and much more interesting than facile generalizations made without the slightest consideration for ...

Mostly, here, I think too many speakers turn "some" into "all" awfully easily.] Facile generalizations about This Generation and That Generation are just that?facile ...

... in the culture of These States is the lack of a civilized aristocracy, secure in its position, animated by an intelligent curiosity, skeptical of all facile generalizations ...

indices of any 'ability' (remember IQ?), it may be easier to make facile generalizations that appear to be supported by data obtained under these

Writer Yalof helps make all this accessible, but many of these ideas are truisms, and the authors sometimes characterize women with facile generalizations, for example:

Created as a diagnosis of forest problems, this volume applies a careful analysis to a knotty problem that has generated too many dangerously facile generalizations.

The comparative approach is important, to avoid over-facile generalization. Barker suggests observing not only those aspects of society which NRMs want to change but those aspects ...

Consequently, no facile generalizations can be made about the writing: Each of these playwrights is demonstrably her own woman. More power to them.

... studies collected here?featuring some of the best material from Middle East Report over the past decade as well as much original material?challenge the facile generalizations ...

The book is sufficiently documented and complete, free from facile generalizations and topical discussions. ISBN 971 554 005 8

Organized into three sections?the early twentieth century to the civil rights movement to the post?Cold War era?the book avoids facile generalizations and instead examines ...

... the proverbial mirror to the bland consumer paradise that is modern-day America and steer clear of caricature or facile generalizations

Cautioning against facile generalizations and stressing at the outset that adaptation to every particular situation is essential, this article explores seven broad theses for ...

No facile generalizations about ?Gen X [Y, Z, or whatever],? no ?change for change?s sake,? but earnest discernment about how to be church.

The conventional win-win assurances, they explain, are facile generalizations that ignore the complexity of the trading system--the myriad differences in country-to-country ...

Tod Lindberg began by pointing out that anti-Americanism is a complicated subject, prone to facile generalizations and superficial assumptions.

If they obscure the truth of perplexing contradiction, even facile generalizations can tell the truth of possibility. Negative generalizations may reveal our sense of inadequacy or ...

It is a testament to his originality that, in this book as in the previous ones, he manages to avoid the clichés and facile generalizations that have come to typify the genre.

Hale avoids facile generalizations like "the birth of the modern world," and if in the end he might agree that something new and important was happening in the Renaissance period ...

Also banished were the many species of literary fraud?from facile generalizations to redundancies to such crass, hypersentimental, factory-generated cliches as "trees [are ...

The best self-help book I've ever read- wise, authoritative, hopeful and without the cliches and facile generalizations that often mar this genre."

Finally, he names names and resists facile generalizations. One generalization, however, does emerge from this fine and important book: namely, that racial paternalism is a deeply ...

For whatever reason, India lends herself rather easily to facile generalizations - the oft quoted one is that she lives largely in her villages.

What is most interesting about the first piece (? Weekend Warriors ?) is how Americans United does not make facile generalizations about a monolithic ?religious right? but ...

Generalizations. Vague generalizations give comfort to the non-thinker, or to the ... impatience, making you see the world in extremes, giving you false and facile ...

Although Pacheco's approach to his music is too multifaceted to be described with facile generalizations, there is a strong sense of history in some of his songs.