Gender, innovation and ambiguity: speech prohibitions as a resource for 'space to move'

This article is based on the observation that in African women's interactional practices, there is a space 'between speech and silence' (Gal, 1991), an ambiguous space between norm and sanction (Jaworski et al.,2005:4), which allows for the negotiation of socially and culturally adequ...

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