Publications

Publication details [#22941]

DeFrancisco, Victoria Leto. 1991. The sounds of silence: How men silence women in marital relations. Discourse & Society 2 (4) : 413–423.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | power | women's vs. men's language

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

A study of conversations in 7 white heterosexual married couples. D. argues that women tend to do more conversational work in the interaction, but are more likely to get silenced by the men.