Publications

Publication details [#12472]

Fishman, Pamela. 1997. Interaction: The Work Women Do. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 416–429.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational role | gender | interactional sociolinguistics | man-woman conversation | power | social relationship | women's language

Language as a subject

English, American

Annotation

It is found that women keep interaction going, while men control the reality the interaction produces.