Gender and Politeness

Informationen zum Autor Sara Mills is Research Professor in the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University. Her previous books include Feminist Stylistics and the edited volumes Gendering the Reader and Language and Gender. Klappentext Challenging the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men (as language and gender literature claim)! Sara Mills discusses the complex relationship between gender and politeness. Mills argues that! although women speakers! drawing on stereotypes of femininity! can appear to be acting more politely than men! there are many circumstances where women will act as "impolitely" as men. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Rethinking linguistic interpretation; 2. Theorising politeness; 3. Politeness and impoliteness; 4. Theorising gender; 5. Gender and politeness; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Mills
• Assisted by: Paul Drew (Editor), Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2003
• EAN: 9780521009195
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00919-5
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 215 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio; Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures