Women and Politeness on Egyptian Talk Shows

THIS CHAPTER EXAMINES assertiveness techniques, such as interruption and floor controlling, by women on Egyptian talk shows. The data consist of fifteen hours of talk shows. The analysis includes five talk shows. Two are exclusive to one group, males or females, and not another. Note that all the pa...

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Main Author: REEM BASSIOUNEY
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied linguistics
Assertiveness
Behavioral sciences
Broadcast media
Communications
Etiquette
Grammar
Grammatical gender
Grammemes
Human populations
Human societies
Identity
Language
Linguistics
Mass communication
Mass media
Men
Personal identity
Personality
Personality psychology
Personality traits
Persons
Politeness
Population studies
Psychology
Social attitudes
Social dynamics
Social norms
Social psychology
Social sciences
Sociolinguistics
Sociology
Solidarity
Talk shows
Television
Television programs
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Summary:THIS CHAPTER EXAMINES assertiveness techniques, such as interruption and floor controlling, by women on Egyptian talk shows. The data consist of fifteen hours of talk shows. The analysis includes five talk shows. Two are exclusive to one group, males or females, and not another. Note that all the participants are in the same age group, forty-five to fifty-five years. Talk shows specifically are an opportunity for women to compete with men on a professional level and to redefine their identity according to context. As an outcome of theories that perceive gender as a binary opposition (Freed 2003, 702), Holmes (1998,