Gender and Language Representation
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- Gender
- Difference within Gender
- Deborah Cameron The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007)
- Said it is assumed that men and women speaking differently is fact, rather than being treated as a hypothesis
- The differences are mainly a miscommunication between the sexes causing problems in heterosexual relationships
- Men's language is not competative
- All women are not more verbally skilled than men
- Geoffrey Beattie
- Investigated 557 mixed gender conversations
- Found men and women interrupted a similar amount
- Deborah Cameron The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007)
- Difference between Gender
- Lakoff Women's Language (1975)
- Women speak in a submissive way
- Hedging
- Tag questions
- Apologise
- Super polite forms
- Empty adjectives
- Janet Holmes
- Investigated tag questions
- Women use tag questions more than men
- 1. Referential tag questions
- Used for factual uncertainty
- Investigated tag questions
- Deborah Tannen You Just Don't Understand (1992)
- Difference Model
- Men 1.Problem Solving 2.Status 3.Independence 4.Report 5.Lecturing 6.Oppositional
- Women 1.Sympathy 2.Connection 3.Intimacy 4.Rapport 5.Listening 6.Supportive
- Found six diffrences in the way men and women use language
- Difference Model
- Zimmermen and West
- Investigated 55 mixed gender conversations
- Found men interrupted 46 times and Women 2 times
- Lakoff Women's Language (1975)
- Difference within Gender
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