Publications

Publication details [#26311]

Freed, Alice F. and Alice Greenwood. 1996. Women, men, and type of talk: what makes the difference? Language in Society 25 (1) : 1–26.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | gender | men's language | women's language

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This analysis of dyadic conversations between female and male pairs of friends, divided into three types of discourse, shows that the use of YOU KNOW and of questions, stereotypically associated with a female speech style, in fact depend upon the talk context and its particular requirements.