Gender and language
Subtitle: towards a feminist pragmatics
By: Christine Christie.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Pragmatics.; Feminist theory.
Description: This work introduces an approach to the study of language use that enables the relationship between meaning generation and gender to be explored. It presents a systematic look at pragmatic approaches such as relevance theory, speech act theory and politeness theory, introducing the reader to a series of analytical tools such as entailment, presupposition, implicature and textual coherence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-200) and index.