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Publication details [#49415]

Sanderson, Penny. 1998. A Cognitive Approach to Gender Differences in Conversational Style. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 29 (1) : 26–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive linguistics | conversational style | gender | men's language | women's language

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article tries to demonstrate that pragmatic and social phenomena such as gender differences in conversational styles can be successfully explained by the theory of cognitive linguistics.