Coates

Coates

1. Language techniques, such as keeping a convo going, aren't signs of inferiority or insecurity - they show intelligence + power

2. Boys + girls tend to talk about similar topics in single gender groups

3. Demonstrates the sensitivity of participants to the norms of interaction: speakers recognise different types of talk + use minimal responses appropriately

4. Lexical items such as 'perhaps, I think, sort of, probably' as well as certain prosodic + paralinguistic features are used to express epistemic modality

5. Women use these features to mitigate the force of an utterance to respect addressees - face needs