Legal discourse and the cultural intelligiblity of gendered meanings

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 452-477

  Ehrlich, Susan ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Gender; Legal discourse; Participation structure; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548308497     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00333.x     Document Type: Article

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