Gender and Politeness (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 17) - Softcover

Mills, Sara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521009197 ISBN 13: 9780521009195

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Challenging the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men (as language and gender literature claim), Sara Mills discusses the complex relationship between gender and politeness. Mills argues that, although women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of femininity, can appear to be acting more politely than men, there are many circumstances where women will act as "impolitely" as men.

About this title

Book Description:

Gender and Politeness challenges the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men as much of the language and gender literature claims. Sara Mills discusses the complex relations between gender and politeness and argues that although there are circumstances when women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of femininity to guide their behaviour, will appear to be acting in a more polite way than men, there are many circumstances where women will act just as impolitely as men.

About the Author:

Sara Mills is Research Professor in the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University. Her previous books include Feminist Stylistics and the edited volumes Gendering the Reader and Language and Gender.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521009197
• ISBN 13: 9780521009195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280