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Publication details [#36405]

Erman, Britt. 1992. Female and male usage of pragmatic expressions in same-sex and mixed-sex interaction. Language Variation and Change 4 (2) : 217–234.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | expression1 | interaction | pragmatic language | women's vs. men's language

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0954-3945

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The findings of this study point to gender-specific differences in British English speakers' use of the three pragmatic expressions 'you know, you see and I mean'. Their use is also largely affected by whether the interaction occurs in a same-sex as opposed to a mixed-sex environment.