Download or read book Women Talk written by Jennifer Coates and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.