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Functions of you know in women's and men's speech
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You know, like the tag question and the parenthetical I think, has been regarded as a linguistic hedging device, and consequently as a “women's language” form. This paper describes a range of forms and functions expressed by you know, as well as its use by women and men in a corpus of spontaneous speech. While there is no difference in this corpus in the total number of occurrences of you know produced by women and men, there are interesting contrasts in the most frequent functions expressed by you know in female and male usage. Finally, the possibility that negative stereotypes may distort perceptions of women's usage is briefly discussed. (Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, contextual styles, women's and men's speech)
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- Authors
- Holmes, J.
- Venue
- Language in Society
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1986-03
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-21
- ISSN
- 0047-4045 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8013
- OpenAlex
- W2125625621
- Cited by
- 265
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 11.78
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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