Resumen de Gendered panhandling?

Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou

• This study offemale/male beggars whofrequent the streets of Thessaloniki investigates the extent to which gender display, in terms of verbal/nonverbal strategies, prevails over the Community of practice that female and male panhandlers share or whether the practice erases any traces of gender, r endering them "just beggars." The theoretical framework utilised is that of "face" combined with ethnomethodological conversation analysis.

  Detailed analysis ofmore than 40 episodes of panhandling points to a split äs regards the verbal/nonverbal aspect ofthe event, with men being predominantly nonverbal but women combining both kinds of communication.

  Further, the two genders rely on different verbal, paralinguistic, kinesic, and proxemic behavior to communicate their pleas. No single practice is sufficient to collapse the two genders into one androgynous body, although women and men share afew superordinate strategies and occasionally cross gender boundaries.