What is it about?
The paper explores how the sex of speakers detemines the way in which they express their ideas
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Why is it important?
This is relavant because it is not focused on the lexicon men and women use but on how other more subtle linguistic devices are exploited (sometimes unconsciously, I believe) as comunicative strategies.
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I think this paper can be used as a starting point for further analysis of the subjectivity to be found in supposedly objective genres such as scientific English
Prof Isabel Moskowich
Universidade da Coruna
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This page is a summary of: When Sex talks. Evidence from the "Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing" (Isabel Moskowich), Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers,
DOI: 10.3726/978-3-0351-0901-6/13.
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