caa a22 4500 469052937 CHVBK 20180323132835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01068306 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01068306 Effects of communication apprehension, familiarity of partner, and topic on selected "women's language” features [Elektronische Daten] [Linda McMullen, Deborah Pasloski] In keeping with Lakoff's (1975) notion that the use of "women's language” (WL) conveys uncertainty on the part of the speaker, the influence of communication apprehension, familiarity of partner, and topic on the use of selected WL forms was investigated. In dyadic conversation with a female friend or stranger, 71 female university students, who had completed the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension—Long, discussed a familiar or an unfamiliar topic. Multiple-regression analyses revealed that (1) communication apprehension was positively related to the use of question intonation, (2) familiarity of topic and partner were negatively related to the use of hedges, and (3) familiarity of topic was positively related to the use of intensifiers. There were no intercorrelations of the linguistic forms. These results challenge the notion that WL forms actually cohere to form a kind of "language” and suggest that the influence of social and psychological variables on the use of WL is much more complex and multifaceted than Lakoff believed. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 McMullen Linda Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada aut Pasloski Deborah Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/1(1992-01-01), 17-30 0090-6905 21:1<17 1992 21 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01068306 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01068306 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McMullen Linda Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pasloski Deborah Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/1(1992-01-01), 17-30 0090-6905 21:1<17 1992 21 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer