Jennifer Coates
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- Created on: 19-04-15 16:10
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- Jennifer Coates (1989,1991)
- Topic & topic development
- Talk is central to women's friendships
- Talk is central to women's friendships
- Talk is central to women's friendships
- Minimal Responses
- Mark their recognition of different stages of conversation
- To signal their active listener-ship & support for each other
- Hedges
- Mitigated utterances encourage discussion (prevent speakers talking hard-line)
- To respect the face needs of all participants
- Encourage the participation of others
- Encourage the participation of others
- Questions
- Often function as info devices
- Used to invite others to participate
- Check what's said is acceptable to all present
- Hardly seen as a sign of weakness
- Info questions are rare
- Women avoid role of 'expert' in friendly conversations
- Tag questions
- Can be tentative
- To encourage other people to have confidence to give their own opinion
- Asking for reassurance
- Can be supportive/ powerful
- Encourage responses
- Mitigate/ lessen the impact of response being negative
- Can be tentative
- Turn-taking
- Permits a more multi-layered development of topic
- Listeners ask questions or make comments as signals of listenership
- Common in simultaneous speech
- Common in simultaneous speech
- Chief goal to maintain good social relationships then co-operative conversation strategies are very powerful
- Topic & topic development
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