Women and Language in Australian and New Zealand SocietyAnne Pauwels Language and gender research including role of Aboriginal women in language change and language maintenance; paper by Jakelin Troy on Aboriginal women and contact languages separately annotated. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 29
Page 35
... Hedges Lakoff's suggestion ( 1975 ) that women use lexical and syntactic hedges more than men has stimulated greater volume of research than her theories about expletive use . Lakoff used the word hedge ( 1975 : 53-4 ) in the same sense ...
... Hedges Lakoff's suggestion ( 1975 ) that women use lexical and syntactic hedges more than men has stimulated greater volume of research than her theories about expletive use . Lakoff used the word hedge ( 1975 : 53-4 ) in the same sense ...
Page 36
... hedges ( e.g. something , / ... and things ) showed that women were more likely to use these hedges when talking to another woman than men were when talking to a woman . The use of these hedges could reasonably be seen as a women's in ...
... hedges ( e.g. something , / ... and things ) showed that women were more likely to use these hedges when talking to another woman than men were when talking to a woman . The use of these hedges could reasonably be seen as a women's in ...
Page 65
... hedges which may have both a negative and a positive politeness function . " Illustrating the former , they provide examples of their use to soften or attenuate ' FTAs [ face - threatening speech acts ] of suggesting or criticising or ...
... hedges which may have both a negative and a positive politeness function . " Illustrating the former , they provide examples of their use to soften or attenuate ' FTAs [ face - threatening speech acts ] of suggesting or criticising or ...
Contents
Notes on contributors iv | 5 |
research in New Zealand | 32 |
Sex differences in intergroup and intragroup | 45 |
Copyright | |
4 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal Aboriginal women activities adult analysis appear associated Australian avoidance behaviour boys British cent characters child colonists communication contact languages context conversational corpus course described devices differences discussion distribution early Education effect English evidence examined example express female Figure forms frequently function gender girls given guidelines hedges Holmes important indicated instances interaction interest interpretation interviewer introduction issue Jane language language and gender linguistic London male marital status married meaning Miss mothers newspapers non-sexist non-standard noted Occurrences parents particles particular patterns personal title Peter politeness present Press proposals question reading refer regarding relations relationship role says seen sexism shows social society sort speakers speech standard suggested Table tags University users variation wife woman women young Zealand