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Women Talk
Conversation Between Women Friends
Jennifer Coates (Author)
9780631182535, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 15 October 1996
352 pages
25 x 20 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg
"Coates's book is an extraordinary study of the discourse of female friendships, based on recordings of a large number of naturally-occurring same-sex conversations among female and (for comparison) male friends, supplemented by ethnographic interviews with the same and other women, and analyzed by means of discourse analysis ... In empirical terms, Coates has provided a detailed analysis of the linguistic strategies making up this discourse of solidarity, the collaborative floor." Bent Preisler, University of Roskilde "While this text is important reading for specialists in discourse, it is accessible to lay readers as well, so it is both an important research text as well as a good tool to use in introducing students to discourse analysis" Timothy Frazer, Western Illinois University "Jennifer Coates celebrates and describes friendships and talk among women; at the same time, she provides an argument for feminist ethnographic research methods. She writes a clear, detailed and rich study based on the transcripts of 20 conversations among women, and on the transcripts of interviews with 15 women .... Women Talk is likely to become a pivotal publication.....This book offers a very useful conversation about women friends' talk." Cheris Kramarae, University of Illinois
This book challenges the age-old myth that women's talk is trivial and unimportant. Drawing on a corpus of spontaneous conversation between friends, Jennifer Coates demonstrates the richness and complexity of the language used in such talk, focusing on women's use of hedges, questions and repetition.
Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Transcription of the Conversations x Transcription Conventions xii 1 ‘This is on tape you know’ 1 2 ‘She’s just a very very special person to me’ 16 3 ‘We never stop talking’ 44 4 ‘We talk about everything and anything’ 68 5 ‘D’you know what my mother did recently?’ 94 6 ‘The feminine shape … is more melding in together’ 117 7 ‘You know so I mean I probably …’ 152 8 ‘It was dreadful wasn’t it?’ 174 9 ‘I just kept drinking and drinking and drinking’ 203 10 ‘Thank god I’m a woman’ 232 11 ‘Talk’s absolutely fundamental’ 263 Appendices 287 Notes 297 Bibliography 311 Index 320
The origins of the book
Talk and women’s friendship
Talk and women’s friendships
An overview of the conversations
Telling our stories
The organization of friendly talk
Hedges and hedging
Women and questions
Repetition and textual coherence
The construction of differing femininities
Being a friend
Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]
