Women's Speech, Women's Strength? [electronic resource] / Jennifer Coates.

A discussion of women's oral discourse patterns focuses on the uses made of minimal responses, hedges, and tag questions. The analysis draws on transcriptions of conversations among a group of women friends over a period of months. It is proposed that the conventional treatment of these forms a...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Coates, Jennifer, 1942-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1988.
Subjects:	Discourse Analysis. Females. Foreign Countries. Interpersonal Communication. Language Patterns. Language Role. Linguistic Theory. Oral Language. Sex Differences. Speech Habits.