Jennifer Coates, subculture and conversational style
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- Created on: 27-03-19 15:07
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- Jennifer Coates - Subculture and conversational style
- The construction of gender through talk, language and sexuality, conversational narrative and turn taking patterns in conversation.
- The peer group of a child is directly influential upon their social linguistic development
- Girls tend to stick to playing in smaller groups, based predominately on talk
- The peer group of a child is directly influential upon their social linguistic development
- Boys will tend to play in larger, hierarchical groups based on joint activity.
- Builds on Deborah Tannen's ideas
- Returns to Tag questions (Robin Lakoff)
- Problems with Coates' theory - Not completely accurate with regards to the way children use language and for what purposes they achieve. -Some elements could be applied to either gender depending on the perspective it was seen.
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