Publications

Publication details [#3607]

Gardner, Carol Brooks. 1980. Passing by: Sheet remarks, address rights, and the urban female. Sociological Inquiry 50 (3-4) : 328–356.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational opening | sex | social norm | urban community

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/soin

Annotation

A study of 'sheet remarks' as one type of breach of the norm of civil inattention between unacquainted persons in the large urban areas of America today. The context of the male-to-female sheet remark is examined.

Reprints

Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer. 1984. In Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer, eds. Language in use: Readings in sociolinguistics. Prentice-Hall. pp. 148–164.