Sex similarities and differences in stance in informal American conversation

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-111

  Precht, Kristen ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Conversation; Corpus; Gender; Hedge; Sex; Stance

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949147773     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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