Publications

Publication details [#9360]

Tannen, Deborah F. 1982. Ethnic style in male/female conversation. In Gumperz, John J., ed. Language and social identity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 217–231.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | indirectness | women's vs. men's language

Language as a subject

English, American | Greek, Modern

Annotation

On indirectness in male-female discourse, seen as a feature of conversational style, investigated with Greeks, Americans, and Greek-Americans.