The book Social Gender and Politeness challenges the prevailing notion that women are in every case more polite than men, a view supported by a significant portion of the literature dealing with social gender and politeness.
Sara Mills engages with the complex relationships between social gender and politeness and argues that, although there are circumstances in which women, when speaking, adjust their behavior to feminine stereotypes, appear to operate in a more polite manner than men, there are also many circumstances in which women behave as rudely as men do.
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[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Sarah Mills
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Genre
- Linguistics Books, Books On Writing
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 324
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- Original Title
- Gender and Politeness
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789601625683
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