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302.346 COA Coates, Jennifer. Women talk Date Due q ( _ < 0 j BRODART, CO. b Cat. No. 23-233-003 Printed in U.S.A. ~ » b - 0 / Women Talk This book is dedicated to the members of the Oxton 'Ladies7, past and present - Ann, Anne, Caro, Carol, Margaret, Moira, Rhiannon, Roslin, Rossanna, Sue - in celebration of over twenty years of friendship; and to Gina, in celebration of over forty years of friendship. Women Talk Conversation between Women Friends Jennifer Coates BLACKWELL Publishers Copyright © Jennifer Coates, 1996 The right of Jennifer Coates to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 1996 2468 10 97531 Blackwell Publishers Ltd 108 Cowley Road Oxford 0X4 1JF UK Blackwell Publishers Inc. 238 Main Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress-in-Publication Data Coates, Jennifer. Women talk : conversation between women friends / Jennifer Coates, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-631-18252-7 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-631-18253-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women—Language. I. Title. P120.W66C6 1996 302.3'46'jl82—dc20 95-49251 C0t\ CIP Typeset in 10 V on 12 V pt Palatino 2 2 by Graphicraft Typesetters Ltd, Flong Kong Printed in Great Britain by Hartnolls Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper. Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Transcription of the Conversations x Transcription Conventions xii 1 'This is on tape you know' 1 The origins of the book 2 'She's just a very very special person to me' 16 Women and friendship 3 'We never stop talking' 44 Talk and women's friendships 4 'We talk about everything and anything' 68 An overview of the conversations 5 'D'you know what my mother did recently?' 94 Telling our stories 6 'The feminine shape ... is more melding in together' 117 The organization of friendly talk 7 'You know so I mean I probably . . . ' 152 Hedges and hedging 8 'It was dreadful wasn't it?' 174 Women and questions 9 T just kept drinking and drinking and drinking' 203 Repetition and textual coherence 10 'Thank god I'm a woman' 232 The construction of differing femininities 11 'Talk's absolutely fundamental' 263 Being a friend Appendices 287 Notes 297 Bibliography 311 Index 320 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/womentalkconversOOOOcoat
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