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Women, men, and politeness

Author: Janet Holmes
Publisher: London ; New York : Longman, 1995.
Series: Real language series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Language and gender is a dynamic and popular area of sociolinguistics. Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally." "Women, Men and Politeness will be of interest to second year undergraduate students following courses on sociolinguistics and language and gender and will be supplementary reading for students of sociology, anthropology,  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Holmes, Janet, 1947-
Women, men, and politeness.
London ; New York : Longman, 1995
(OCoLC)623871960
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Janet Holmes
ISBN: 0582063620 9780582063624 0582063612 9780582063617
OCLC Number: 30734505
Description: viii, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Title: Real language series.
Responsibility: Janet Holmes.

Abstract:

"Language and gender is a dynamic and popular area of sociolinguistics. Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally." "Women, Men and Politeness will be of interest to second year undergraduate students following courses on sociolinguistics and language and gender and will be supplementary reading for students of sociology, anthropology, women's studies and English literature. It will also be of value to counsellors, teachers and administrators dealing with problems in the workplace arising from gender differences in language use."--BOOK JACKET.

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