| Description |
viii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Language and sex in the quantitative paradigm : introduction / Deborah Cameron -- Some problems in the sociolinguistic explanation of sex differences / Deborah Cameron & Jennifer Coates -- A pragmatic account of women's use of standard speech / Margaret Deuchar -- The speech of British Black women in Dudley, West Midlands / Viv Edwards -- Differences of sex and sects : linguistic variation and social networks in a Welsh mining village / Beth Thomas -- Language and sex in connected speech : introduction / Jennifer Coates -- Lakoff in context : the social and linguistic functions of tag questions / Deborah Cameron, Fiona McAlinden & Kathy O'Leary -- Gossip revisited : language in all-female groups / Jennifer Coates |
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Talk control : an illustration from the classroom of problems in analysing the male dominance of conversation / Joan Swann -- Talking shop : sex and status as determinants of floor apportionment in a work setting / Nicola Woods -- The wedding songs of British Gurjarati women / Viv Edwards & Savita Katbamna |
| Analysis |
Women Language - Sociological perspectives |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [177]-185 |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Sex differences.
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Women -- Language.
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| Author |
Cameron, Deborah, 1958-
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Coates, Jennifer, 1942-
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| LC no. |
87034179 |
| ISBN |
0582009693 |
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