Hence, some of the hitherto described and sometimes controversially discussed linguistic and interactional features, like interruption […] and other supposedly attenuating forms and strategies, as well as prosodic aspects like tempo and pitch, with their ascribed social meaning and their gender specific distribution (viz. gender stereotyped perception) might just correspond to these societies’ gender norms and types of arrangement […]
ascribe (v. t.) : to attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author – source: Communicating gender in context, p. 107
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