Women Talk
Coates, Jennifer (University of Roehampton, Surrey)![Women Talk](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/836/8364229/CHSBZCOP038364229.jpg)
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.