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Publication details [#14480]

Cameron, Deborah. 1998. 'Is there any ketchup, Vera?': gender, power and pragmatics. Discourse & Society 9 (4) : 437–455.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265

Annotation

Arguing against the 'difference' account of male-female misunderstandings, this paper claims that these misunderstandings should be seen as discursive correlates of power conflicts (e.g. subordinate positioning) and gender conflicts.