Making gender relevant: Conversation analysis and gender categories in interaction

Discourse and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 217-244

  Stokoe, Elizabeth H ^a   Smithson, Janet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categories; Conversation analysis; Culture; Feminism; Gender; Gender orientations; Participants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035585101     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926501012002005     Document Type: Article

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