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In this paper, we explore further the idea that differences in syntax and discourse may reflect different orientations to talk, which may in turn be relevant to the social construction of gender. We take as the basis for our investigation an area at the interface of syntax and pragmatics that has not previously been investigated from a sociolinguistic perspective: the management of information structure in natural discourse.
Cheshire et al. (Sat,) studied this question.