Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631182535
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.