Title: Language and gender : a reader /
Authors: Coates, Jennifer.
Publisher: Blackwell,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Language and languages Sex differences
Contents: Yanyuwa: "men speak one way, women speak another" / John Bradley -- Sex and covert prestige / Peter Trudgill -- Linguistic variation and social function / Jenny Cheshire -- Girl-talk/boy-talk: sex differences in adolescent speech / Edina Eisikovits -- Black women in the rural south: conservative and innovative / Patricia C. Nichols -- Gender and sociolinguistic variation / Penelope Eckert -- How and why are women more polite: some evidence from a Mayan community / Penelope Brown -- Complimenting -- a positive politeness strategy / Janet Holmes -- Cooperation and competition across girls' play activities / Marjorie Harness Goodwin -- Peasant men can't get wives: language change and sex roles in a bilingual community / Susan Gal -- Women's place in everyday talk: reflections on parent-child interaction / Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman.