Human Relations through Communication

In general terms this essay analyses the characteristic patterns of verbal communicative interaction between men and women, especially as they apply to speech representation of fictional couples. More specifically, it focuses on the fictional narrative representation of the said communicative exchanges in Kate Chopin’s short story Desiree’s Baby (written in 1892 and published in 1893) and on their translated Spanish version in the published translation carried out by Olivia de Miguel in 1996.