Recent Books, Theses and Articles on Gender and Linguistic Politeness 1981+

Bell K The Relationship of Gender and Sex Role Identity to Politeness, Ann Arbor, MI, 1985, Diss.

Baroni M `Some experimental findings about the question of politeness and women’s speech’, Language in Society, NY, 1984, 13:1, 67-72

Brown, P. `Gender, politeness and confrontation in Tenejapa’, 144-62, in Tannen D. ed. Gender and Conversational Interaction, New York, Oxford UP, 1994

Brown, P. `How and why are women more polite: some evidence from a Mayan community’, pp111-136, in McConnell-Ginet, S eds. Women and Language in Literature and Society, Praeger, 1980, NY

Johnstone, B et al `Gender politeness and discourse management in same sex and cross sex opinion poll interviews’, Journal of Pragmatics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1992 Nov 18:5, 405-30

Burstein J: `Politeness strategies and gender expectations’, CUNYform, papers in Linguistics, New York, 1989, 14, 31-37

Holmes J `Politeness strategies in New Zealand women’s speech’, 252-276, in Bell A et al eds. New Zealand Ways of Speaking English, Multilingual Matters, 1990, Clevedon, England

Ide S. `Sex difference and politeness in Japanese’ International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Berlin, 1986, 58, 25-36

Ide S `Japanese socilinguistics: politeness and women’s language’, Lingua, Amsterdam, 1982, 57:2-4, 357-385

Smith, J `Just stating the facts in Japanese', 540-48 in Hall K et al eds. Locating Power I and II, Berkeley Women and Language Group, University of California, 1992

Smith, J `Women in charge: politeness and directives in the speech of Japanese women’, Language in Society, New York, 1992, March 21:1, 59-82

Smith Hefner N. `Women and politeness: the Javanese example’, Language in Society, NY, 1988, 17:4, 535-554

Szabo L `Men’s and women’s speech in Japanese’, in Black J ed. Papers from the 14th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Nov, 1990

Zimin, S `Sex and politeness: factors in 1st and 2nd language use’, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Berlin, 1981, , 35-58

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