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.
Jennifer Coates is Professor Emerita at University of Roehampton. She is the author of Women, Men and Language 3rd Ed (Routledge, 2016)
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PART 1: Language and sex in the quantitative paradigm: theoretical perspectives; empirical studiesPART 2: Language and sex in connected speech: women's language - critical approaches; problems of power; female speech events in cultural context.Appendix: transcription notation