Lakoff's gender theory
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- Created on: 25-03-15 17:01
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- Lakoff (1975)
- Hedging
- "sort of"
- "kind of"
- "it seems like"
- (super) polite expressions
- "would you mind..."
- "I'd appreciate it if..."
- Tag questions
- "You're coming, aren't you?"
- Vocal italics (intonational emphasis)
- "that's VERY bad"
- "it was QUITE good"
- Empty adjectives
- divine
- lovely
- adorable
- Hypercorrect grammar
- Direct quotation: men more likely to paraphrase
- Special feminine lexicon
- women have more words for colours
- men have more words for sports
- Question intonation in declarative statements
- expresses uncertainty
- "you went to Eton?"
- Wh- imperatives
- "why don't we do this?"
- "why don't you open the door?"
- Women speak less frequently than men
- Apologise more
- "I'm sorry, but I think..."
- Modal constructions
- can
- would
- should
- "Should we turn up the heating?"
- "Can you come with me?"
- Avoid coarse language and expletives
- Indirect commands and requests
- "My, isn't it cold in here?" is really asking to turn up heating
- More intensifiers
- so
- very
- Hedging
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