Sociolinguistic Artifacts

This Buzzfeed video is an interesting look at the topic of refusals covered in Kitzinger and Frith (1999) where three people (including Quinta Brunson!) are invited to a party, and two of them decline the invitation using a mixture of pauses, palliatives, and prefaces, as discussing in the conversation analysis of the 1999 paper. Then Quinta gives a simple refusal of, "I won't be at the party because I don't want to go". The others are confused and humorously try to provide her with appropriate excuses. I think the most interesting thing here regarding gender is that Quinta is in a group of 3 other men, all of whom engage in complicated refusals while Quinta, the only woman, pointedly does not (and no one calls her a bitch like in the Maya Rudolph SNL video).