Lakoff
- Created by: erinjones1234
- Created on: 06-06-17 16:45
View mindmap
- Lakoff 1975
- Concluded that women adopted less authoritative roles than male speakers.
- Lakoff identified the following features that characterised female talk
- tag questions 'isn't it?'
- hedges or fillers 'well'
- empty adjectives 'amazing'
- intensifiers 'really'
- more polite forms than men 'powder my nose' (visiting the toilet)
- avoidance of taboo, weak expletives 'oh sugar'
- emphatic stress on specific words 'that dress is GORGEOUS'
- precise colour terms 'taupe'
- hypocorrect grammar
- lack of sense of humour
- Lakoff asserted that social conditioning was responsible for the more differential language used by women.
- However other linguists argue that the differences are universal, inherent, biologically determined or even leaned behaviourists
- Lakoff identified the following features that characterised female talk
- tag questions 'isn't it?'
- hedges or fillers 'well'
- empty adjectives 'amazing'
- intensifiers 'really'
- more polite forms than men 'powder my nose' (visiting the toilet)
- avoidance of taboo, weak expletives 'oh sugar'
- emphatic stress on specific words 'that dress is GORGEOUS'
- precise colour terms 'taupe'
- hypocorrect grammar
- lack of sense of humour
Similar English Language resources:
Teacher recommended
Comments
No comments have yet been made