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Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends [Paperback]

Jennifer Coates (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (15 Oct 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0631182535
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631182535
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 617,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"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

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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.
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This is a great book. Jennifer Coates explores the importance of language in relationships between women and tries to figure out why talk is so valuable. She asks questions such as 'Where do women talk?' and 'What exactly do they talk about?' and then proceeds to give detailed answers based on the research she's done involving a group of women. The book talks about women's speech structure and why women sometimes seem to, sort of, well, use hedges and how good they are at exploiting the use of questions, aren't they? Coates also explains how language is a vital part of making and sustaining women's friendships and alleviates some of the guilt over that huge phone bill!

Altogether it's a fascinating read which raises lots of interesting points and will make you subconsciously analyse the next conversation you have with your friends. The only flaw would be the way in which the conversation transcripts are laid out. It can be a little confusing to follow at first but you should get used to it after a while!

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A fascinating look at how conversation works 14 May 2000
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I first ran across Jennifer Coates while studying linguistics, and found her eminently readable and informative. This book, which looks at the nature of women's speech (focusing mainly on conversation in medium-sized groups), is no different. It's liberally dotted with actual transcribed examples, and the analysis is generally very sound - although Coates does have a tendency to romanticise things, denying that women's talk (and indeed friendship) can be anything other than completely equitable and non-hierarchical.

This is an academic book, but Coates' fondness for the topic is obvious. A very good read, although non-linguists might find it heavy going.

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