Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Scope, theories and methods
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Theoretical foundation
  • 1.2 Some basic problems
  • 1.3 Summary of basic problems. Preliminary hypotheses
  • 2 Purpose and general design of project
  • 2.1 Purpose
  • 2.2 Cross-sex and same-sex groups
  • 2.3 Role dichotomy
  • 2.4 Quantity and quality of data
  • 3 Interactants and recordings
  • 3.1 Interactants
  • 4 The application of Interaction Process Analysis (IPA)
  • 4.1 Our procedures and discourse analysis
  • 4.2 Purpose of the ComAct model
  • ""4.3 Balesâ€? revised IPA model (1970)""""4.4 IPA categories as ComActs""; ""4.5 Role analysis""; ""4.6 Summary of IPA procedures""; ""5 The application of linguistic tentativeness signals""; ""5.1 Linguistic tentativeness""; ""5.2 The realization of the ComAct""; ""5.3 Main-clause structure""; ""5.4 Subclause function""; ""5.5 Modality and modal constructions""; ""5.6 Modal auxiliary verbs""; ""5.7 Tag questions""; ""5.8 Hedges""; ""5.9 Lexical modal forms""; ""5.10 Modality and lexico-structural prominence""; ""5.11 Lexical clause-external modal constructions""
  • 5.12 Lexical clause-internal modal constructions5.13 Incomplete structures
  • 5.14 Dependent paralinguistic features
  • Part II. Hypotheses and results
  • 6 Delimitation hypotheses
  • 6.1 Hypotheses about language, sex and interactional roles
  • 7 Particular hypotheses
  • 7.1 The A-series: Basic realization of ComActs
  • 7.2 The B-series: Modality in the finite verb
  • 7.3 The C-series: External modalities
  • 7.4 The D-series: Hedges and lexical internal modalities
  • 7.5 Conclusion
  • Part III. Presentation of results by stratificational category
  • 8 Results shared in by all substrata (TOT)8.1 Primary sex differences
  • 8.2 Primary role differences
  • 8.3 Sex/role-differences
  • 8.4 Summary
  • 9 The younger generation (YNG)
  • 9.1 Primary sex differences
  • 9.2 Primary role differences
  • 9.3 Sex/role differences
  • 9.4 Summary
  • 10 The older generation (OLD)
  • 10.1 Primary sex differences
  • 10.2 Primary role differences
  • 10.3 Sex/role differences
  • 10.4 YNG and OLD: Summary
  • 11 The managerial workers (MANA)
  • 11.1 Primary sex differences
  • 11.2 Primary role differences
  • 11.3 Sex/role differences11.4 Summary
  • 12 The clerical workers (CLER)
  • 12.1 Primary sex differences
  • 12.2 Primary role differences
  • 12.3 Sex/role differences
  • 12.4 Summary
  • 13 The manual workers (MANU)
  • 13.1 Primary sex differences
  • 13.2 Primary role differences
  • 13.3 Sex/role differences
  • 13.4 MANA, CLER, and MANU: Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Author index
  • Systematic index of particular hypotheses
  • Alphabetical index of particular hypotheses
  • General index