Indirectness: A gender study of flouting Grice's maxims  

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Rundquist, Suellen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 18 no. 5 (Nov. 1992), page 431-449.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JPR/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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There is a popular belief that women's speech is more indirect than men's speech. However, there has been little empirical evidence to support this claim. Moreover, indirectness is often treated as a unitary concept, when in fact there are several types of indirect speech. Presented here is a completed study exploring the relationship between gender and indirectness, focusing on one type of indirectness, what Grice (1975) refers to as flouting the maxims of conversation. Result of this study indicate that the men flout more indirectly than women do in the situations examined. Finding empirical evidence that men flout more than the women indirectly than women do in certain situation confronts a societal myth that the reverse is true. Within Sperber and Wilson's (1986) theory of indirectness, which has a cognitive rather than a social basis., one would be less likely to expect social variables to interact with degrees of indirectness. The results of my study show that there are differences in the degree to which men and women flout the Gricean maxims, thus providing evidence supportinng a theory with a social component.

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