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Publication details [#20694]

Preisler, Bent. 1986. Linguistic sex roles in conversation: Social variation in the expression of tentativeness in English. De Gruyter. xviii + 347 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | sex

Annotation

The book has three main parts: A first part defines the scope, discusses the problem of investigating sex roles in language, and explicates the different occurences of tentativeness in English. The second part presents hypotheses and results of an empirical investigation. The third part analyses the results according to stratificational categories.

Reviewed by

Holmes, Janet. 1989. Review of B.Preisler (1986: `Linguistic sex roles in conversation: Social variation in the expression of tentativeness in English').