1st Edition

Women in Their Speech Communities

By Jennifer Coates, Deborah Cameron Copyright 1989
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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.

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

Biography

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