Publications

Publication details [#26949]

West, Candace. 1995. Women's competence in conversation. Discourse & Society 6 (1) : 107–131.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | conversational competence | gender | subordination | women's language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This conversation analytic approach of the results of existing research on (the assessment of) women's conversational competence, ends in a consideration of frequent misrepresentation of this competence and its involvement in female subordination.