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. |
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... Women's and men's use of slang In the introduction to her book , Lily on the dustbin : slang of Australian women and families , Keesing ( 1982 : 4 ) remarks that ' Sheilaspeak ' ( womens ' language and slang ) and ' Familyspeak ' ' have ...
... Women's and men's use of slang In the introduction to her book , Lily on the dustbin : slang of Australian women and families , Keesing ( 1982 : 4 ) remarks that ' Sheilaspeak ' ( womens ' language and slang ) and ' Familyspeak ' ' have ...
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... women are generally assumed to talk more , to gain talk time by interrupting and to talk faster than men . In Evidence from overseas studies testing this stereotype shows little or no difference between women's and men's speech rate ...
... women are generally assumed to talk more , to gain talk time by interrupting and to talk faster than men . In Evidence from overseas studies testing this stereotype shows little or no difference between women's and men's speech rate ...
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... women's and men's use of language . While it has been suggested that forms expressing uncertainty are used more frequently by females than by males , the data examined in this paper does not in general support such a claim . There are ...
... women's and men's use of language . While it has been suggested that forms expressing uncertainty are used more frequently by females than by males , the data examined in this paper does not in general support such a claim . There are ...
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Notes on contributors iv | 5 |
research in New Zealand | 32 |
Sex differences in intergroup and intragroup | 45 |
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