1st Edition

Women in Their Speech Communities

By Jennifer Coates, Deborah Cameron Copyright 1989
    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)