文档介绍：Gender and
Conversational Interaction
OXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Edward Finegan, General Editor
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Douglas Biber
Alessandro Duranti
John R. Rickford
Deborah Tannen
LOCATING DIALECT IN DISCOURSE
The Language of Honest Men and
Bonnie Lassies in Ayr
Ronald K. S. Macaulay
ENGLISH IN ITS SOCIAL CONTEXTS
Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Tim W. Machan and Charles T. Scott
COHERENCE IN PSYCHOTIC DISCOURSE
Branca Telles Ribeiro
GENDER AND CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION
Edited by Deborah Tannen
Gender and
Conversational
Interaction
EDITED BY
Deborah Tannen
New York Oxford
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1993
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Gender and conversational interaction /
edited by Deborah Tannen.
p. cm. —(Oxford studies in sociolinguistics)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-19-508193-5 (cloth). — ISBN 0-19-508194-3 (pbk.)
1. Language and languages—Sex differences.
2. Conversation. 3. Sociolinguistics.
4. Social interaction.
I. Tannen, Deborah. II. Series.
1993 '4—dc20 92-33401
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on acid-free paper
To Robin Lakoff
pioneer, inspiration, mentor, friend
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