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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785838603321

Autore

Preisler Bent <1945->

Titolo

Linguistic sex roles in conversation : social variation in the expression of tentativeness in English / / Bent Preisler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1986

ISBN

3-11-086297-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; ; 45

Classificazione

HF 119

Disciplina

825

Soggetti

English language - Modality

English language - Sex differences

English language - Social aspects

Speech acts (Linguistics)

English language - Spoken English

Conversation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-312) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Scope, theories and methods -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Purpose and general design of project -- 3. Interactants and recordings -- 4. The application of Interaction Process Analysis (IPA) -- 5. The application of linguistic tentativeness signals -- Part II. Hypotheses and results -- 6. Delimitation hypotheses -- 7. Particular hypotheses -- Part III. Presentation of results by stratificational category -- 8. Results shared in by all substrata (TOT) -- 9. The younger generation (YNG) -- 10. The older generation (OLD) -- 11. The managerial workers (ΜΑΝΑ) -- 12. The clerical workers (CLER) -- 13. The manual workers (MANU) -- 14. The younger managerial workers (YMA) -- 15. The older managerial workers (OMA) -- 16. The younger clerical workers (YCL) -- 17. The older clerical workers (OCL) -- 18. The younger manual workers (YMU) -- 19. The older manual workers (OMU) -- 20. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Systematic index of particular hypotheses -- Alphabetical index of particular hypotheses -- General index