Women in Their Speech Communities / Edition 1

by Jennifer Coates, Deborah Cameron

Overview

This collection of essays presents a picture of research on women and language in Britain. The contributors cover a range of British speech communities, linguistic events and settings using approaches from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582009691
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/19/1989
Series:	Studies in Language and Linguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jennifer Coates is Professor Emerita at University of Roehampton. She is the author of Women, Men and Language 3rd Ed (Routledge, 2016)

Table of Contents

PART 1: Language and sex in the quantitative paradigm: theoretical perspectives; empirical studies
PART 2: Language and sex in connected speech: women's language - critical approaches; problems of power; female speech events in cultural context.

Appendix: transcription notation