The first goal of this article is to present a
description of the linguistic features that distinguish
the genderlects of Russian. Although there exist some data
on interruptions and other kinds of gender-specific discourse
behavior in Russian, they are not discussed here, because
the variables that govern gender differences in linguistic
behavior are too numerous and inconclusive, and Russian
data that bear on such behavior remain at this point too
meager. Rather, what is discussed here are the structural
features of Russian genderlects. This focus leads to a
second goal, a theoretical one: to explore how genderlect
phenomena can be explained in the Transactional Discourse
Model (TDM), a broadly generative, pragmatically based
discourse model that is sensitive to the factors that control
the occurrence of gender-specific features in speech.
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