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Gender and topic1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Pamela S. Kipers
Pamela S. Kipers
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Graduate School of EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
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Abstract

This article has two purposes. The first is to examine the relationship between topic and gender on the basis of observation of naturally occurring conversations among all-male, all-female, and mixed gender groups. The second is to undertake an analysis of the relative importance or triviality of these conversations as perceived by the conversants themselves. Several unexpected agreements and differences were found. (Sociolinguistics, conversational topic, gender-related language differences, intuition versus data-based investigation in the study of language, speech acts, English, United States)

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Language in Society , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 1987, pp. 543 - 557
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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