Women Talk P

By Jennifer Coates

Book Overview

This book challenges the age-old myth that women's talk is trivial and unimportant. Drawing on a corpus of spontaneous conversation between friends, Jennifer Coates demonstrates the richness and complexity of the language used in such talk, focusing on women's use of hedges, questions and repetition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631182535
• ISBN13: 9780631182535
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"