Gender Theorists
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- Gender Theorists
- Robin Lakoff:
- In 1975, produced an account of women's language claiming that women: Hedge, use polite forms, use tag questions, use direct quotations, speak less frequently and apologise more often.
- Zimmerman and West
- In mixed-sex conversations men are more likely to interrupt than women. In 1975 they reported that in 11 conversations men interrupted 46 times but women only two.
- Beattie
- Women and men interrupted with more or less equal frequency.
- Fishman
- Conversation between the sexes sometimes fails, not because of anything inherent in the way that women talk, but because of how men respond, or even don't respond.
- Tannen
- Represents male and female language use in a series of 6 contrasts: Status Vs support. Independence Vs intimacy. Advice Vs understanding. Information Vs feelings. Orders Vs proposals. Conflict Vs compromise.
- Trudgill
- Detailed study in which subjects were grouped by social class and sex. Trudgill found that men were less likely - and women were more likely - to use the prestige pronunciation of certain speech sounds.
- Coates
- Argues that all -women conversations can fall into one of the following categories: House talk, Scandal, Bitching or Chatting
- Cameron
- Says that women have been instructed in the proper ways of talking just as they have been instructed in proper ways of dressing. 'Verbal Hygiene'.
- Robin Lakoff:
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