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Bent Preisler, Linguistic sex roles in conversation: Social variation in the expression of tentativeness in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. Pp. xviii + 347.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Janet Holmes
Janet Holmes
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Linguistics Department, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Language in Society , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 293 - 299
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