Gender Theory
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- Created on: 16-03-22 09:38
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- Gender Theory
- O'Barr and Atkins
- power based on social hierarchy NOT gender
- Coates
- woman- emotionally sensitive topics.
- When children learn to talk- mix with same gender- pick up those same features
- woman- emotionally sensitive topics.
- Trudgill
- woman- overt prestige. men- under prestige
- Chesire
- men- non standard lexis e.g aint
- Jones
- Woman: house talk, scandal, bitching, chat
- Seek intimacy within language
- Woman: house talk, scandal, bitching, chat
- Mills
- more sexually explicit terms for woman
- lexical pairs (lord lady). Semantic deterioration. Marked terms
- Holmes
- Men- Animals (strong, brave)
- woman- sweet food (sugar, honey)
- Cameron
- verbal hygiene- need to 'clean up language'
- differences due to context NOT gender
- verbal hygiene- need to 'clean up language'
- Jesperson 1930s
- woman smaller vocab and talk too much using empty adjectives
- Doyle
- wrote a-z list on non-sexist terms
- Lakoff
- woman- hedge, empty adjectives, tag questions, hyercorrect grammar, direct quote
- Spender
- male- norm
- Julia Stanley
- found 220 sexual terms for woman. 26 for men
- Fishman
- woman tag questions to continue converstation
- Tannen
- 1) status: support. 2)advice: understanding3)info: feelings 4)orders: proposals
- Zimmerman and West
- men interrupt 96% more
- Beattie
- larger study- found men and woman interrupt equally
- O'Barr and Atkins
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