Tabla de Contenidos:
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1 Language, sex and gender
  • 1.2 Womenâ€?s and menâ€?s language use
  • 1.3 Womenâ€?s and menâ€?s language attitudes
  • 1.4 The present study
  • 2 THE INVESTIGATION IN AMSTERDAM
  • 2.0 Introduction
  • 2.1 Sample
  • 2.2 Design and procedure
  • 2.3 Language use component
  • 2.4 Language attitude component
  • 3 LINGUISTIC VARIATION
  • 3.0 Introduction
  • 3.1 Style shift and variation within styles
  • 3.2 Language use by women and men
  • 3.3 The standard/non-standard dimension
  • 4 SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS4.0 Introduction
  • 4.1 Language use by women and men revisited
  • 4.2 Language use and social position: gender-related speech differences
  • 5 LINGUISTIC ATTITUDES
  • 5.0 Introduction
  • 5.1 Self-evaluation of language use
  • 5.2 Subjective reactions to standard and non-standard language use and to female and male speakers
  • 5.3 Language use and social norms: gender-stereotyped attitudes
  • 6 CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • 6.1 Sociolinguistic differences between women and men
  • 6.2 Explanations and explanations
  • APPENDIX 1 Occupations of the informantsAPPENDIX 2 Reading style text
  • APPENDIX 3 Word list
  • APPENDIX 4 Phonetic-phonological test
  • APPENDIX 5 Morpho-syntactic test
  • APPENDIX 6 Lexical test
  • APPENDIX 7 Amsterdam dialect test
  • REFERENCES
  • AUTHOR INDEX