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Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends

Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends

by Coates Coates (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

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Synopsis

This book challenges the age--old myth that womena s talk is trivial and unimportant. Drawing on a corpus of spontaneous conversation between friends, Jennifer Coates demonstrates the richness and complexity of the language used in such talk, focusing on womena s use of hedges, questions and repetition.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 344
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 15 Oct 1996
ISBN 10: 0631182535
ISBN 13: 9780631182535

Media Reviews
Coatesa s book is an extraordinary study of the discourse of female friendships, based on recordings of a large number of naturally--occurring same--sex conversations among female and (for comparison) male friends, supplemented by ethnographic interviews with the same and other women, and analyzed by means of discourse analysis ... In empirical terms, Coates has provided a detailed analysis of the linguistic strategies making up this discourse of solidarity, the collaborative floor. Bent Preisler, University of Roskilde While this text is important reading for specialists in discourse, it is accessible to lay readers as well, so it is both an important research text as well as a good tool to use in introducing students to discourse analysis Timothy Frazer, Western Illinois University Jennifer Coates celebrates and describes friendships and talk among women; at the same time, she provides an argument for feminist ethnographic research methods. She writes a clear, detailed and rich study based on the transcripts of 20 conversations among women, and on the transcripts of interviews with 15 women ... Women Talk is likely to become a pivotal publication...This book offers a very useful conversation about women friendsa talk. Cheris Kramarae, University of Illinois
Author Bio
Jennifer Coates isis Professor of English Language and Linguistics at University of Surrey, Roehampton.