Publications

Publication details [#14752]

Gordon, Elizabeth. 1997. Sex, speech and stereotypes: Why women use prestige speech forms more than men. Language in Society 26 (1) : 47–63.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | language variation | social class | stereotype | women's language

Language as a subject

English, New Zealand

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Based on a study of New Zealand middle class speakers, this article claims that the women of this social class use more prestige forms than their male counterparts in order to steer clear of association with a lower-class stereotype of sexual immorality.