English language - Gender revision
- Created by: BeingJodie
- Created on: 15-03-18 13:23
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- Gender
- Dominance
- Lakoff
- Women's language lacks authority.
- Zimmerman & West
- Dale Spender
- Males prevent females from speaking - they want to 'hold the floor'.
- Lakoff
- Difference
- Jennifer Coates
- Women use effective language and men use referential language.
- Pamela Fishman
- Conversational 'shitwork'.
- Women have to work for a conversation - tag questions.
- Counter argues Lakoff
- Jennifer Coates
- Deficit
- Otto Jesperson
- Male language is the 'norm'.
- Women's language is deficit.
- 1992 - outdated.
- Otto Jesperson
- Diversity
- Janet Hyde
- Gender similarities.
- Differences aren't just gender - age, class, occupation, ethnicity.
- Janet Hyde
- Dominance
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