Linguistic Sex Roles in Conversation

Social Variation in the Expression of Tentativeness in English

Bent Preisler

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110110814
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110862973
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Part I. Scope, theories and methods
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Theoretical foundation
• 1.2 Some basic problems
• 1.3 Summary of basic problems. Preliminary hypotheses
• 2 Purpose and general design of project
• 2.1 Purpose
• 2.2 Cross-sex and same-sex groups
• 2.3 Role dichotomy
• 2.4 Quantity and quality of data
• 3 Interactants and recordings
• 3.1 Interactants
• 4 The application of Interaction Process Analysis (IPA)
• 4.1 Our procedures and discourse analysis
• 4.2 Purpose of the ComAct model
• 4.3 Bales’ revised IPA model (1970)
• 4.4 IPA categories as ComActs
• 4.5 Role analysis
• 4.6 Summary of IPA procedures
• 5 The application of linguistic tentativeness signals
• 5.1 Linguistic tentativeness
• 5.2 The realization of the ComAct
• 5.3 Main-clause structure
• 5.4 Subclause function
• 5.5 Modality and modal constructions
• 5.6 Modal auxiliary verbs
• 5.7 Tag questions
• 5.8 Hedges
• 5.9 Lexical modal forms
• 5.10 Modality and lexico-structural prominence
• 5.11 Lexical clause-external modal constructions
• 5.12 Lexical clause-internal modal constructions
• 5.13 Incomplete structures
• 5.14 Dependent paralinguistic features
• Part II. Hypotheses and results
• 6 Delimitation hypotheses
• 6.1 Hypotheses about language, sex and interactional roles
• 7 Particular hypotheses
• 7.1 The A-series: Basic realization of ComActs
• 7.2 The B-series: Modality in the finite verb
• 7.3 The C-series: External modalities
• 7.4 The D-series: Hedges and lexical internal modalities
• 7.5 Conclusion
• Part III. Presentation of results by stratificational category
• 8 Results shared in by all substrata (TOT)
• 8.1 Primary sex differences
• 8.2 Primary role differences
• 8.3 Sex/role-differences
• 8.4 Summary
• 9 The younger generation (YNG)
• 9.1 Primary sex differences
• 9.2 Primary role differences
• 9.3 Sex/role differences
• 9.4 Summary
• 10 The older generation (OLD)
• 10.1 Primary sex differences
• 10.2 Primary role differences
• 10.3 Sex/role differences
• 10.4 YNG and OLD: Summary
• 11 The managerial workers (MANA)
• 11.1 Primary sex differences
• 11.2 Primary role differences
• 11.3 Sex/role differences
• 11.4 Summary
• 12 The clerical workers (CLER)
• 12.1 Primary sex differences
• 12.2 Primary role differences
• 12.3 Sex/role differences
• 12.4 Summary
• 13 The manual workers (MANU)
• 13.1 Primary sex differences
• 13.2 Primary role differences
• 13.3 Sex/role differences
• 13.4 MANA, CLER, and MANU: Summary
• Bibliography
• Author index
• Systematic index of particular hypotheses
• Alphabetical index of particular hypotheses
• General index