Gender & Politeness:

A Bibliography.

 

 

 

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ABORDONADO, Valentina M.V. (1998) The Effect of Gender on Linguistic Politeness in Written Discourse, Diss. University of Arizona.

AL-ZUMOR, Abdul Wahed (2003) "Apologies in Arabic and English: an Interlanguage and Crosscultural Study" In: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ea/politeness/apologiesinarabicandenglish.htm.

ANTONOPOULOU, Eleni (2001) “Brief Service Encounters: Gender and Politeness”, in Arin Bayraktaroglu & María Sifianou, Maria  Sachike (eds) Linguistic Politeness across Boundaries: The Case of Greek and Turkish, Amsterdam: Benjamins. 241-69.

ARONSSON, Karin & THORELL, Mia (1999) “Family Politics in Children's Play Directives”, Journal of Pragmatics  31(1): 25-48.  

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BADDELEY, Simon & JAMES, Kim (1991) “The Power of Innocence: From Politeness to Politics”, Management Education & Development 22(2): 106-18.

BARBOSA, Maria Lucia Ferreira de Figueiredo (1996) “Estrategias de Polidez em Respostas a Elogios”, Trabalhos Em Linguistica Aplicada 28:5-17.

BARGIELA, Francesca; BOZ, Corinne ; GOKZADZE, Lily ; HAMZA, Abdurrahman ; MILLS, Sara and RUKHADZE, Nino (2002) “Ethnocentrism, Politeness and Naming Strategies.” Sheffield Hallam Working Papers : Linguistic Politeness in Context, http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/politeness/bargiela.htm.

BARONI, M.R. & V. D'URSO (1984) “Some experimental findings about the question of politeness and women's speech.” Language in Society 13: 67-72.

BAXTER, Leslie A. (1984) “ An Investigation of Compliance-Gaining as Politeness”, Human Communication Research 10(3): 427-56.

BEECHING, Kate (2002) Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

BELL, Katherine Marie (1985) The Relationship of Gender and Sex Role Identity to Politeness in Speech Behavior. Diss. Ann Arbor: MI.

BOGOCH, Bryna (1994) “Power, Distance and Solidarity: Models of Professional-Client Interaction in an Israeli Legal Aid Setting”, Discourse & Society 5(1): 65-88.

BROUWER, D. de (1982) “The influence of the addressee's sex on politeness in language use.” Linguistics 20: 697-711.

BROWN, Penelope (1976) “Women and Politeness: a New Perspective on Language and Society”, Reviews in Anthropology 240-49.

BROWN, Penelope (1980) “How and Why are Women more Polite: some Evidence from a Mayan Community”, In S. McConnell-Ginet; R. Borker; & N. Furman, eds., Women and Language in Literature and Society, New York: Praeger. 111-36. Reprinted in J. Coates ed., Language and gender. Oxford: Blackwell. 1996

BROWN, Penelope (1981) “Universals and Particulars in the Position of Women”, In P. Brown et al., Women in Society: Interdisciplinary Essays, pp. 242-56.

BROWN, Penelope (1990) “Gender, Politeness, and Confrontation in Tenejapa”, Discourse Processes 13(1): 123-41. Reprinted in D. Tannen, ed., Gender and Conversational Interaction, New York: Oxford University Press. 1994: 144-162.

BROWN, Penelope and JORDANOVA, L. (1981) “Oppressive Dichotomies: the Nature/Culture Debate”, in Penelope Brown et al., Women in Society: Interdisciplinary Essays, 224-41.

BROWN, Penelope et al. (eds.) (1981) Women in Society: Interdisciplinary Essays, by the Cambridge Women's Studies Collective. Textbook for a women's studies course, Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge. Virago Press.

BROWN, Penelope ; MACINTYRE, M.; MORPETH, R. and PRENDERGAST, S. (1981) “A Daughter: A Thing to Be Given away”, In P. Brown et al., Women in Society: Interdisciplinary Essays.127-45.

BURSTEIN, Jill (1989) “Politeness Strategies and Gender Expectations”, CUNY forum: Papers in Linguistics 14:31-37.  

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CHING, Martin K.L. (1988) “Ma’am and Sir: Modes of Mitigation and Politeness in the Southern United States.” In Alan R. Thomas (ed.) Methods in Dialectology. Clevendon, Pa.: Multilingual Matters Ltd. 20-45.

CHIU, Ming Ming (2000)” Effects of Status on Solutions, Leadership, and Evaluations during Group Problem Solving”, Sociology of Education 73(3): 175-195.

CHRISTIE, Chris (2001) Gender and Language: Towards a Feminist Pragmatics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

CHRISTIE, Chris (2002) “Politeness and the Linguistic Construction of Gender in Parliament: An Analysis of Transgressions and Apology Behaviour”, Sheffield Hallam Working Papers on the Web: Linguistic Politeness and Context. http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/politeness/christie.htm.

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DAVIDSON, Jenny (2000) “'Professed Enemies of Politeness': Sincerity and the Problem of Gender in Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, Studies in Romanticism 39(4):599-615.

DE KLERK, Vivian (1992) “How Taboo Are Taboo Words for Girls?”, Language in Society 21(2): 277-289.  

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ECKERT, Penelope & MCCONNELL-GINET, Sally (1992) “Think Practically and Look Locally: Language and Gender as Community-Based Practice”, Annual Review of Anthropology 21: 461-490.

EDWARDS, Marcia Harms (1995) Strategies of Linguistic Politeness in Routine Gynecologic Examinations, Diss. University of Texas, Austin.

ELIASOPH, Nina (1987) “Politeness, Power, and Women's Language: Rethinking Study in Language and Gender”, Berkeley Journal of Sociology 32: 79-103.  

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GARCÍA GÓMEZ, Antonio (2000) “Discourse, Politeness and Gender Roles: An Exploratory Investigation into British and Spanish Talkshow Verbal Conflicts.” Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 8: 97-126.

GARCIA, Erica C. & OTHEGUY, Ricardo L. (1983) “Being Polite in Ecuador: Strategy Reversal under Language Contact”, Lingua 61(2-3):103-132.

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HERAS, Susana de las (1998) “El papel del genero en la datacion y recepcion de cumplidos y la cortesia lingüística”, Cuadernos del Lazarillo: Revista Literaria y Cultural 15:62-68.  

HERRING, Susan C. (1994) "Politeness in computer culture: why women thank and men flame." In M. Bucholt, A.C. Liang, L.A. Sutton & C. Hines (eds.) Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the 3rd Berkelely Women and Language Conference. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women & Language Group, University of California. 278-294.

HERRING, Susan C. (2003) "Gender and power in on-line communication." In J. Holmes & M. Meyerhoff (eds.) The Handbook of Language and Gender. Oxford: Blackwell. 202-228.

HOAR, Nancy (1992) “Genderlect, powerlect, and politeness.” In L.A.M. Perry, L.H. Turner, & H.M. Sterk (eds.) Constructing and Reconstructing Gender. The Links Among Communication, Language, and Gender.  Albany: State University of New York. 127-136.  

HOBBS, Pamela (2003) "The medium is the message: politeness strategies in men's and women's voice mail messages", Journal of Pragmatics 35: 243-262.

HOLMES, Janet & STUBBE, Maria (1997) “Good Listeners: Gender Differences in New Zealand Conversation”, Women & Language 20(2): 7-14.

HOLMES, Janet (1986) “Function of You Know in Women’s and Men’s Speech”, Language in Society 15(1): 1-22.

HOLMES, Janet (1988) “Paying Compliments: A Sex-Preferential Politeness Strategy”, Journal of Pragmatics 12(4): 445-465.

HOLMES, Janet (1988) “Sort of in New Zealand women's and men's speech.” Studia Linguistica 42:2.

HOLMES, Janet (1989) “Sex  Differences and Apologies: One Aspect of Communicative Competence”. Applied Linguistics 10: 194-213.

HOLMES, Janet (1990) “Hedges and Boosters in Women’s and Men’s Speech”, Language and Communication 10(3): 185-205.

HOLMES, Janet (1990) “Politeness Strategies in New Zealand Women's Speech" in Bell, A. et al. eds. New Zealand Ways of Speaking English, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 252-276.

HOLMES, Janet (1992) “Women’s Talk in Public Contexts”, Discourse and Society 3(2): 131-150.

HOLMES, Janet (1999) “Women, Men and Politeness: Agreeable and Disagreeable Responses”, in Adam Jaworski & Nikolas Coupland eds. The Discourse Reader, London: Routledge. 336-45.  

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IDE, Sachiko (1982) “Japanese Socilinguistics: Politeness and Women’s Language” Lingua 57(2/4): 357-385.

IDE, Sachiko (1986) “Sex Difference and Politeness in Japanese”, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 58: 25-36.

IDE, Sachiko (1992) “Gender and Function of Language Use: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence from Japanese”, Pragmatics & Language Learning 3: 117-129.  

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JOHNSON, Donna M. & ROEN, Duane H. (1992) “Complimenting and Involvement in Peer Reviews: Gender Variation”, Language in Society 21(1): 27-57.

JOHNSTONE, Barbara. FERRARA, Kathleen & BEAN, Judith Mattson (1992) “Gender, Politeness, and Discourse Management in Same Sex and Cross-Sex Opinion-Poll Interviews”, Journal of Pragmatics 18(5): 405-30.

JOSEPHIDES, Lisette (1999) “Disengagement and Desire: The Tactics of Everyday Life”, American Ethnologist 26(1): 139-159.  

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KAMISLI, Sibel & DOGANCAY-AKTUNA, Seran (1997) “Gender Differences in Conveying Embarrassing Information: Examples from Turkish”, Women & Language 20(2): 25-33.

KUO, Sai-hua (1994) “Agreement and Disagreement Strategies in a Radio Conversation”, Research on Language & Social Interaction 27(2): 95-121.

KUO, Sai-hua (1994) “Verbal Playfulness as a Rapport-Building Strategy in Conversation among Chinese Female Friends”, EDRS Availability: Microfiche .  

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LORENZO-DUS, Nuria (2001) “ Compliment Responses among British and Spanish University Students: A Contrastive Study”, Journal of Pragmatics 33(1): 107-127.  

LORENZO-DUS, Nuria & BOU-FRANCH, Patricia (2003) "Gender and Politeness: Spanish and British Undergraduates' Perceptions of Appropriate Requests", in José Santaemilia (ed) Género, lenguaje y traducción, Valencia: Universitat de València/Dirección General de la Mujer, 187-199.

LOVEDAY, L. (1981) “Pitch, Politeness and Sexual Role: an Exploratory Investigation”. Language and Speech 24: 71-88.  

M

MEYERHOFF, Miriam (1992) “'A Sort of Something'-Hedging Strategies on Nouns”, Working Papers on Language, Gender & Sexism  2(1): 59-73.

MEYERHOFF, Miriam (1999) “Sorry in the Pacific: Defining Communities, Defining Practices”, Language in Society 28(2):225-38.

MILAN, W. (1976) “The Influence of Sex and Age Factors in the Selection of Polite Expressions: A Sample from Puerto Rican Spanish”, La Revista Bilingüe 3: 99-121.

MILLS, Sara (2002) “Rethinking Politeness, Impoliteness and Gender Identity”, in:http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ea/politeness/GenderandPoliteness.htm.

MILLS, Sara (in print) Rethinking Gender and Politeness, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

MULLANY, Louise (2002) “’I don’t Think You Want me to Get a Word in Edgeways, do You John?’ Re-assessing (Im)politeness, Language and Gender in Political Broadcast Interviews. ”, Sheffield Hallam Working Papers on the Web: Linguistic Politeness and Context. http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/politeness/mullany.htm.

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NAKANISHI, Masayuki (1998) “Gender Enactment on a First Date: A Japanese Sample”, Women & Language 21(1): 10-17.  

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OKAMOTO, Shigeko (2002) “Ideology and Social Meanings: Rethinking the Relationship between Language, Politeness, and Gender”, in Sara Benor et al. (eds) Gendered Practices in Language, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 91-113.  

OSTERMAN, Ana Cristina (2003) "Communities of Practice at Work: Gender, Facework and the Power of Habitus at an all-Female Police Station and a Feminist Crisis Intervention Center in Brazil", Discourse & Society 14(4):

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PAN, Yuling (1995) “Power behind Linguistic Behavior: Analysis of Politeness Phenomena in Chinese Official Settings”, Journal of Language & Social Psychology  14(4): 462-481.

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SADIQI, Fatima (1995) “The Language of Women in the City of Fes, Morocco”, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 112: 63-79.

SIFIANOU, Maria (2001) “'Oh! How Appropriate!': Compliments and Politeness”, in Arin Bayraktaroglu & María Sifianou eds., Linguistic Politeness across Boundaries: The Case of Greek and Turkish, Amsterdam: Benjamins. 391-430.

SMITH, Janet S. (1992) “Linguistic Privilege: 'Just Stating the Facts' in Japanese”, in Kira Hall; Mary Bucholtz & Birch Moonwomon eds. Locating Power, I & II, Berkeley Women & Lang. Group, Univ. of California. Berkeley. 540-48.

SMITH, Janet S. (1992) “Women in Charge: Politeness and Directives in the Speech of Japanese Women”, Language in Society 21(1): 59-82.

SMITH-HEFNER, Nancy J. (1988) “Women and Politeness: The Javanese Example”, Language in Society 17(4): 535-554.

SMOREDA, Zbigniew & LICOPPE, Christian (2000) “Gender-Specific Use of the Domestic Telephone”, Social Psychology Quarterly 63(3): 238-252.

SOPEÑA BALORDI, Amalia & OLIVARES PARDO, M.Amparo (2000) ”Actos lingüísticos descorteses”. In: La lingüística francesa en España camino del siglo XXI. Santiago de Compostela: Arrecife, 1025-1035. 

SOPEÑA BALORDI, Amalia (2001) “La lisonja hacia la mujer: el modelo de los proverbios”. In: J.V. Aliaga et al. Eds.  Miradas sobre la sexualidad en el arte y la literatura del s.XX en Francia y España. Universitat de València, Departament de Filologia Francesa i Italiana, 293-306.

SOPEÑA BALORDI, Amalia (2001) “Cortesía vs descortesía: un modelo literario”. In C. Gregori et al. Eds. Quaderns de Filologia.  Estudis Literaris VI.. Universitat de Valencia,.245-243.

SOPEÑA BALORDI, Amalia (2002) “El cumplido. Charme et vertu en “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” “. In: J. Santaemilia et al. Eds.  Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis Linguistics VII.. Universitat de Valencia,.165-177. 

SOPEÑA BALORDI, Amalia (2002) “El cumplido como peligro en Las Amistades Peligrosas”. In: D. Jiménez et al. Eds. Quaderns de Filologia. Anejo XLIX. Universitat de València,.379-390.

SOPEÑA BALORDI, Amalia (2002) “Los apodos colectivos: estudio lingüístico y pragmático”In: E. Casanova & V. Rosselló. Eds:. Congrès Internacional de Toponímia i Onomàstica Catalanes. Universitat de Valencia: Denes Editorial, 155-162.

SZABO, L. (1990) “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.  

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TAKAHARA, Kumiko (1991) “Female Speech Patterns in Japanese”, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 92: 61-85.  

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WILKINSON, Krista M.(1999) “Gender Differences in the Use of Linguistic Devices by Youths with Mental Retardation: A Preliminary Analysis”, Ameican Journal on Mental Retardation 104(3): 227-35. 

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YUASA, Ikuko (2001) Politeness, Emotion, and Gender: A Sociophonetic Study of Voice Pitch Modulation, Diss., University of California, Berkeley.  

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ZIMIN, S. (1981) “Sex and Politeness: Factors in 1st and 2nd Language Use”, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 35-58.

 

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