Publications

Publication details [#23096]

Brown, Penelope. 1990. Gender, politeness, and confrontation in Tenejapa. Discourse Processes 13 (1) : 123–141.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | gender | social context | social norm

Language as a subject

Tzeltal

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

B. examines the role of gender in Tenejapa (Mexico) courtroom interaction, and contrasts it with other social contexts. The overall aim is to examine context dependency of the relations between language and gender.