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Publication details [#14570]

Shaw, Sylvia. 2000. Language, gender and floor apportionment in political debates. Discourse & Society 11 (3) : 401–418.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conversational analysis | ethnography | gender | holding the floor | political discussion | power | turn-taking
Language as a subject
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Interventions and interruptions in five House of Commons debates are analyzed, focusing on the relationship between participant gender and the speaker's ability to hold the floor.