Linguistic sex roles in conversation : social variation in the expression of tentativeness in English / by Bent Preisler.

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Preface -- Part I. Scope, theories and methods -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Theoretical foundation -- 1.2 Some basic problems -- 1.3 Summary of basic problems. Preliminary hypotheses -- 2 Purpose and general design of project -- 2.1 Purpose -- 2.2 Cross-sex and same-sex groups -- 2.3 Role dichotomy -- 2.4 Quantity and quality of data -- 3 Interactants and recordings -- 3.1 Interactants -- 4 The application of Interaction Process Analysis (IPA) -- 4.1 Our procedures and discourse analysis -- 4.2 Purpose of the ComAct model

""4.3 Bales� revised IPA model (1970)""""4.4 IPA categories as ComActs""; ""4.5 Role analysis""; ""4.6 Summary of IPA procedures""; ""5 The application of linguistic tentativeness signals""; ""5.1 Linguistic tentativeness""; ""5.2 The realization of the ComAct""; ""5.3 Main-clause structure""; ""5.4 Subclause function""; ""5.5 Modality and modal constructions""; ""5.6 Modal auxiliary verbs""; ""5.7 Tag questions""; ""5.8 Hedges""; ""5.9 Lexical modal forms""; ""5.10 Modality and lexico-structural prominence""; ""5.11 Lexical clause-external modal constructions""

5.12 Lexical clause-internal modal constructions5.13 Incomplete structures -- 5.14 Dependent paralinguistic features -- Part II. Hypotheses and results -- 6 Delimitation hypotheses -- 6.1 Hypotheses about language, sex and interactional roles -- 7 Particular hypotheses -- 7.1 The A-series: Basic realization of ComActs -- 7.2 The B-series: Modality in the finite verb -- 7.3 The C-series: External modalities -- 7.4 The D-series: Hedges and lexical internal modalities -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Part III. Presentation of results by stratificational category

8 Results shared in by all substrata (TOT)8.1 Primary sex differences -- 8.2 Primary role differences -- 8.3 Sex/role-differences -- 8.4 Summary -- 9 The younger generation (YNG) -- 9.1 Primary sex differences -- 9.2 Primary role differences -- 9.3 Sex/role differences -- 9.4 Summary -- 10 The older generation (OLD) -- 10.1 Primary sex differences -- 10.2 Primary role differences -- 10.3 Sex/role differences -- 10.4 YNG and OLD: Summary -- 11 The managerial workers (MANA) -- 11.1 Primary sex differences -- 11.2 Primary role differences

11.3 Sex/role differences11.4 Summary -- 12 The clerical workers (CLER) -- 12.1 Primary sex differences -- 12.2 Primary role differences -- 12.3 Sex/role differences -- 12.4 Summary -- 13 The manual workers (MANU) -- 13.1 Primary sex differences -- 13.2 Primary role differences -- 13.3 Sex/role differences -- 13.4 MANA, CLER, and MANU: Summary -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Systematic index of particular hypotheses -- Alphabetical index of particular hypotheses -- General index

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