Verbal Sparring and Apologetic Points: Politeness in Gendered Argumentation Contexts
This essay argues tool that ideals of cooperation or adversariality in argumentation are not equally attainable for women.Women in argumentation contexts face oppress-sive limitations undermining argument success because their authority is un-dermined by gendered norms of po-liteness.Women endorsing or, alter-natively, transgressing feminine norms