Women, Men and Everyday Talk [electronic resource] /
Coates, J.author.
Bringing together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, this book provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship groups.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Sources; Transcription Conventions; Part I Language in All-Female Groups; 1 Women's Stories: The Role of Narrative in Friendly Talk; 2 'So I Mean I Probably ...': Hedges and Hedging in Women's Talk; 3 Competing Discourses of Femininity; 4 Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls; 5 Women Behaving Badly: Female Speakers Backstage; Part II Language in All-Male Groups; 6 One-at-a-Time: The Organisation of Men's Talk; 7 'So I Thought "Bollocks to It"': Men, Stories and Masculinities
8 'My Mind Is with You': Story Sequences in the Talk of Male Friends9 'Everyone Was Convinced That We Were Closet Fags': The Role of Heterosexuality in the Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity; Part III Gendered Talk in Other Contexts; 10 Language, Gender and Career; 11 Having a Laugh: Gender and Humour in Everyday Talk; 12 Turn-Taking Patterns in Deaf Conversation; Part IV Language and Gender - Changing Theoretical Frameworks; 13 The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Mars and Venus in Language and Gender Research; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bringing together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, this book provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship groups.
Applied linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Discourse analysis.
Linguistics.
Social sciences.
Applied Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Discourse Analysis.
Language and Literature.
Social Sciences, general.