Language, gender and floor apportionment in political debates

Discourse and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 401-418

  Shaw, Sylvia ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Ethnography; Floor apportionment; Gender and language; Political debates; Power; Turn taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034347066     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926500011003006     Document Type: Article

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