English Dominance model
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- Created on: 19-03-16 12:58
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- Dominance Model
- Language is patriarchal (male dominated)
- To keep women's status lower than men's
- Men and women use language differently
- Men's language = 'more powerful'
- Women's language = weaker
- Lakoff 1975
- Women taught to be 'ladylike'
- Empty adjectives
- Tag questions
- Speak less frequently
- Apologise more
- Indirect commands and requests
- Lack a sense of humour
- Criticism is she didn't carry out any research
- Based on own experiences and assumptions
- Women taught to be 'ladylike'
- Zimmerman and West 1975
- Taped convos between university students
- Men interrupt much more when talking to women
- Fishman 1983
- Men give minimal responses after women taken conversational turn
- Women use minimal responses during men's turns
- Men speak twice as much as women
- Language is patriarchal (male dominated)
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