Women, Men and Politeness

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Synopsis

Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally.Using a range of evidence and a corpus of data collected largely from New Zealand, Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness strategies in women's and men's speech and discusses the possible reasons for gender differences in this area. Data provided on interactional strategies, 'hedges and boosters', compliments and apologies, demonstrates ways in which women's politeness patterns differ from men's, with the implications of these different patterns explored, for women in particular, in the areas of education and professional careers.

Book details

Author:
Janet Holmes
ISBN:
9781317898726
Related ISBNs:
9780582063617
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2018-02-07
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1995
Copyright by:
Routledge 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Nonfiction, Sociology