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.
| ISBN: | 9780631182535 |
| Publication date: | 15th October 1996 |
| Author: | Jennifer Coates |
| Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 324 pages |
| Genres: |
Linguistics |