Publications

Publication details [#2935]

Edelsky, Carole. 1981. Who's got the floor? Language in Society 10 (3) : 383–421.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

holding the floor | sex

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Detailed analysis of the concept of 'floor' in an attempt to answer the question of under what conditions the sexes interact (e.g. hold the floor) more or less as equals, and under what conditions they do not.