Women, Men and Everyday Talk

  • Jennifer Coates
Book

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
    PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 1-7

  3. Language in All-Female Groups

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 9-9
      PDF
    2. Women’s Stories: The Role of Narrative in Friendly Talk [1996]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 11-30
    3. ‘So I Mean I Probably …’: Hedges and Hedging in Women’s Talk [2003]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 31-49
    4. Competing Discourses of Femininity [1997]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 50-78
    5. Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls [1999]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 79-101
    6. Women Behaving Badly: Female Speakers Backstage [2000]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 102-123

  4. Language in All-Male Groups

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 125-125
      PDF
    2. One-at-a-Time: The Organisation of Men’s Talk [1997]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 127-145
    3. ‘So I Thought “Bollocks to It”’: Men, Stories and Masculinities [2000]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 146-168
    4. ‘My Mind Is with You’: Story Sequences in the Talk of Male Friends [2001]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 169-184
    5. ‘Everyone Was Convinced That We Were Closet Fags’: The Role of Heterosexuality in the Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity [2007]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 185-205

  5. Gendered Talk in Other Contexts

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 207-207
      PDF
    2. Language, Gender and Career [1994]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 209-227
    3. Having a Laugh: Gender and Humour in Everyday Talk [2006]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 228-247
    4. Turn-Taking Patterns in Deaf Conversation [2001]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 248-271

  6. Language and Gender — Changing Theoretical Frameworks

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 273-273
      PDF
    2. The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Mars and Venus in Language and Gender Research [2009]
      Jennifer Coates
      Pages 275-295
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 296-319
    PDF

About this book

Introduction

Bringing together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, this book provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship groups.

Keywords

Language gender discourse gender studies language Sex

Authors and affiliations

  • Jennifer Coates
    • 1
  1. 1.University of RoehamptonUK

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