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Brent Preisler. Linguistic Sex Roles in Conversation: Social Variation in the Expression of Tentativeness in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1986. Pp. xviii + 347. DM 128,- (softcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Susan Ehrlich*
Affiliation:
York University

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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1989

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