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Publication details [#31981]

Rundquist, Suellen. 1992. Indirectness: A gender study of flouting Grice's maxims. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (5) : 431–449.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

indirect speech | indirectness | maxim of conversation | women's vs. men's language

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study on the relationship between gender and indirectness focuses on the type of indirectness referred to by Grice (1975) as flouting the conversational maxims. It is shown that in the examined cases, men flout more than women.