Publications
Publication details [#31983]
Watts, Richard J. 1992. Acquiring status in conversation: `Male' and `female' discourse strategies. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (5) : 467–503. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article sketches one way (the network/status analysis) of assessing how and to what extent female and male interactants gain status during discourse, using 'powerful' strategies within emergent networks. Women are shown to use more often neutral strategies and their use of the more 'prestigious' strategies is less competitive.