ABSTRACT

This collection of essays presents a picture of research on women and language in Britain. The contributors cover a range of British speech communities, linguistic events and settings using approaches from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

part |2 pages

Part One: Language and Sex in the Quantitative Paradigm

chapter I|10 pages

Introduction

chapter |20 pages

Theoretical Perspectives

chapter |28 pages

Empirical Studies

part |2 pages

Part Two: Language and Sex in Connected Speech

chapter 6|11 pages

Introduction

chapter |49 pages

Women's Language: Critical Approaches

chapter |35 pages

Problems of Power

chapter |17 pages

Female Speech Events in Cultural Context