Bible Review

Word counts do not include direct object markers.

Jack M. Sasson, “Ruth,” in The Literary Guide to the Bible, ed. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, Belknap, 1987), p. 324.

All biblical quotations are taken from the Revised Standard Version.

Tannen, Understand, p. 77.

Fishman, “Interaction,” p. 97.

Jean Berko Gleason and Esther Blank Greif, “Men’s Speech to Young Children,” in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley, Language, Gender and Society, p. 142.

Julie R. McMillan, A. Kay Clifton, Diane McGrath and Wanda S. Gale, “Women’s Language: Uncertainty or Interpersonal Sensitivity and Emotionality?” Sex Roles 4 (1977), pp. 551–552.

Pamela M. Fishman, “Interaction: The Work Women Do,” in Language, Gender and Society, ed. Barrie Thorne, Cheris Kramarae and Nancy Henley (Rowley, MA: Newbury House, 1983), p. 94.

Tannen, Understand, p. 27.