Women's language and conversation
A mindmap giving language features specific to women, aswell as conversational features.
- Created by: connorahill
- Created on: 09-11-13 11:40
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- Female Language and conversational features
- Deborah Jones' gossip
- House Talk
- Scandal
- Bitching
- Chatting
- Deborah Tannen's contrasts
- Support
- Intimacy
- Understanding
- Feelings
- Propasals
- Compromise
- Robin Lakoff "Language and a Woman's place
- Super polite Forms
- Euphemisms
- Special Lexicon (colours)
- Hedging
- No sense of humor
- Softer Expletives
- Intensifier "so"
- Rising intonation in declarative statements
- Italics
- Hypercorrect Grammar
- Tag Questions
- Super polite Forms
- Janet Holmes
- Facilitative Tag Questions
- Tag Questions
- Facilitative Tag Questions
- Pamela Fishman
- Ask questions as the 'conversational shitwork'
- Facilitative Tag Questions
- Facilitative Tag Questions
- Ask questions as the 'conversational shitwork'
- Coates
- Lean forward and look at each other directly
- Apologise for talking too much
- Simultaneous speech
- Nodding and minimal response in another's speech
- "Women use more standard English"
- Women use more indirect langage
- Deborah Jones' gossip
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