"Drag Queens Talk Like Women, You Know" : A Study in the Use of the hedge "You Know" in feminine-gendered Speech

The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the use of the verbal hedge "you know" in the spontaneous speech of women and drag queens to compare for instances of certainty and uncertainty as described by Holmes (1986). For the data, episodes of the reality shows RuPaul’s Drag Race Unt...

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Main Author: Bennett, Danny
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora 2017
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23442