Scholarly Articles: Language and Gender

Language and Women’s Place. Lakoff (1973)
Sex, Covert Prestige and Linguistic Change in the Urban British English of Norwich Trudgill (1972)
Indexing Gender. Ochs (1992)
On Gender Differences in the Distribution of uh and um. Acton (2011)
Sex Roles Interruptions and Silences in Conversation. Zimmerman and West (1975)
Think Practically and Look Locally- Language and Gender as Community- Based Practice. Eckert and McConnell-Ginet (1992)
The Whole Woman Eckert (1989)
When Difference Is Dominance- A Critique of the Anti-Power-Based Cultural Approach to Sex Differences. Uchida (1982)
Women’s Language or Power Language. O’Barr, Atkins
Not Just doctor’s Orders  West (1990)

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