Publications

Publication details [#11832]

Makri-Tsilipakou, Marianthi. 1997. Gendered Panhandling? International Journal of the Sociology of Language 126 : 123–143. 21 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

begging | conversational analysis | discourse strategy | ethnomethodology | gender

Language as a subject

Greek, Modern

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

The function of gender in verbal versus non-verbal begging strategies is studied. It is found that females use both strategies, while males tend to rely on non-verbal strategies. Male and female differences in terms of kinesic, proxemic, verbal and paralinguistic behavior are listed.