Gender revision
- Created by: Area16
- Created on: 11-11-20 13:34
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- Language and Gender
- Stereotyping
- women are more likely to talk more, use softer language and standard english
- men are assumed to interrupt more, be more assertive swear more and use non standard english
- gender roles in language is often more male dominated
- Sapir-whorf and gender
- principle claiming that the structure of language affects its speakers
- our understanding of female and male constructions is based on the words we have created for them
- we are aware that stereotypes don't always apply but this is seen as abnormal
- Lakoff
- the politeness principle- woman have distinctive features due to social conditioning
- use of: hedges, empty adjectives, super-polite forms, apologies, less frequent speech etc
- Prestige
- covert- high social status through use of non standard form and therefore asserting dominance
- Peter Trudgill
- overt- dialect used by culturally powerful groups
- covert- high social status through use of non standard form and therefore asserting dominance
- Dominance theory
- men are dominant and women are powerless
- Zimmerman and West- 96% interruptions in a convo are male
- men are dominant and women are powerless
- Difference theory
- men and women use language differently
- Tannen- women build connections and men build statuts
- 6 main ways the sexes use language
- Cameron- argues against language reflecting social status
- Gender in non-fiction
- Fairclough
- Halliday
- UntiCtled
- Stereotyping
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