Talk That Counts: Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse

by Ronald K.S. Macaulay

Talk That Counts is a sociolinguistic study of variation in discourse employing quantitative methods to explore age, gender, and social class differences in the use of features such as you know, I mean, adverbs, and pronouns.

Unlike many studies of discourse variation that focus on a single social factor, Talk That Counts examines age, gender, and social class differences in a gender-balanced sample of middle-class and working-class adolescents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195173821
• ISBN13: 9780195173826
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"