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Publication details [#1788]

Brown, Penelope. 1980. How and why are women more polite: Some evidence from a Mayan community. In McConnell-Ginet, Sally, Ruth A. Borker and Nelly Furman, eds. Women and language in literature and society. Praeger. pp. 111–136.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

politeness | women's vs. men's language

Language as a subject

Tzeltal

Person as a subject

Brown, P. | Levinson, S.

Annotation

Brown and Levinson's model of politeness phenomena is applied to the analysis of the differences between men's and women's speech in Tenejapa, a Tzeltal-speaking community.