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Jennifer Coates - Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends - 9780631182535 - V9780631182535
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Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends

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Description for Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends Paperback. This book challenges the age--old myth that womena 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 womena s use of hedges, questions and repetition. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: GTC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 496.
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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631182535
SKU
V9780631182535
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Jennifer Coates
Jennifer Coates isis Professor of English Language and Linguistics at University of Surrey, Roehampton.

Reviews for Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends
"Coates's book is an extraordinary study of the discourse of female friendships, based on recordings of a large number of naturally-occurring same-sex conversations among female and (for comparison) male friends, supplemented by ethnographic interviews with the same and other women, and analyzed by means of discourse analysis ... In empirical terms, Coates has provided a detailed analysis of the linguistic ... Read more

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