Jane Pilkington

Jane Pilkington

1. Studied the gossip features used by all male and all female speakers.

   • The groups of female speakers were a group of housemates at university aged 20-25, and the other was a group of ladies that worked in a bakery and aged between 34-43.
     • The 2 groups of males all worked in the bakery and one was aged between 20-25 and the other was 25-39. All left school at 6th/7th form.

2. She found that the groups of females were more co-operative as they used features such as indirect disagreement and turns with little pausing. Males were more uncooperative as they voiced their disagreement and speech was often disjointed.