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    Women, Men and Politeness by Holmes, Janet;

    Series: Real Language Series;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 23 January 1995

    • ISBN 9780582063617
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages66 pages
    • Size 216x138 mm
    • Weight 120 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Using a range of evidence Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness strategies in women's and men's speech and discusses the possible reasons for gender differences in this area. Data provided on interactional strategies, 'hedges and boosters', compliments and apologies, demonstrates ways in which women's politeness patterns differ from men's, with the implications of these different patterns explored, for women in particular, in the areas of education and professional careers.

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    Long description:

    Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally.

    Using a range of evidence and a corpus of data collected largely from New Zealand, Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness strategies in women's and men's speech and discusses the possible reasons for gender differences in this area. Data provided on interactional strategies, 'hedges and boosters', compliments and apologies, demonstrates ways in which women's politeness patterns differ from men's, with the implications of these different patterns explored, for women in particular, in the areas of education and professional careers.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Sex, politeness and language
    2. Who speaks here? Interacting politely
    3. Soft and low: hedges and boosters as politeness devices
    4. What a lovely tie! Compliments and positive politeness strategies
    5. Sorry! Apologies and negative politeness strategies
    6. Why politeness matters
    Conclusion
    References
    Index

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