Publications

Publication details [#908]

Attili, Grazia and Laura Benigni. 1977. Retorica naturale e linguaggio femminile: Alcune ipotesi sulla relazione tra ruolo sessuale e comportamento verbale nell'interazione faccia a faccia. In Mosconi, Giuseppe and Valentina D'Urso, eds. Psicologia e retorica. Il Mulino. pp. 85–91.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
Italian
Keywords
conversational maxim | conversational organization | goal | profession | social class | social relationship | women's vs. men's language
Person as a subject
Grice, P.H.

Annotation

It is argued that women's goals in conversation are often social ones rather than communicative (or cognitive) ones; and that the pragmatic rules governing women's language are different from those governing the standard men's language (e.g. Grice's conversational maxims).