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Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends
Coates, Jennifer (University of Roehampton, Surrey)
Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends
Coates, Jennifer (University of Roehampton, Surrey)
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.
352 pages, 0
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 15, 1996 |
ISBN13 | 9780631182535 |
Publishers | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 228 × 153 × 13 mm · 496 g |
Language | English |
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