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Publication details [#32143]

Ostermann, Ana Christina. 2003. Localizing power and solidarity: Pronoun alternation at an all-female police station and a feminist crisis intervention center in Brazil. Language in Society 32 (3) : 351–381.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045

Annotation

This study examines the social significance of 2nd person pronoun variation and alternation in professional-victim interactions in two parallel Brazilian institutions created to address violence against women: a police station with an all-female staff, and a feminist crisis intervention center.