Language & Gender: Lakoff (Deficit Model)
- Created by: Charlotte Emily Turner
- Created on: 12-10-17 14:56
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- Lakoff
- 1975: 'Language and Woman's Place'
- Deficit Features
- Hedging & Qualifying
- Softer modal auxiliary verbs (express uncertainty)
- Polite forms/ indirect requests
- Euphemisms
- Apologies
- Empty adjectives (to avoid expressing a specific opinion)
- Women speak less
- 3 Power Features
- 1. Flattery
- 2. Do not impose
- 3. Give a range of opinions
- Men's language is more powerful
- Unmarked forms are the 'norm' (but are always biased towards men)
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