Language and Gender
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- Language and Gender
- Deborah Tannen - You Just Don't Understand
- Status vs Support.Men seek upper hand. Women want confirmation/support.
- Independence vs Intimacy. Men want to be independent.Women think more in terms of closeness.
- Advice vs Understanding.Men see a complaint as a challenge to be fixed.Women just wanted sympathy.
- Information vs Feeling. Men view their concerns as more important.Womens speech is less valued.
- Orders vs Proposals.Men use direct imperatives more.Women sugget/hint to things.
- Conflict vs Compromise.Men vocally show oppposition.Women dont openly oppose.
- Robin Morgan - Going too Fair (1977)
- Claims language is sexiste.g chairmanWomen don't even have their own name, carry fathers then husbands
- Robin Lakoff - Language and the Womens Place (1975)
- Womens talk has the following properties
- Set of words specific to interests
- Empty adjectives
- Use of tag questions/rising intonation
- Use of hedges
- Use of intensive 'so'
- Hypercorrect grammar
- Super politness
- Ask more questions
- Womens talk has the following properties
- Janet Hyde - The Gender Similarities Hypothesis (meta-analysis) 2005
- There are more similarities in men and womens speech than there are differences (either small or close to zero)
- Smiling and spelling accuracy largest difference but still only small
- Verbal abilities and behaviour small differences
- Dominance vs Difference
- Difference theory is that there are binaries in the way each gender talks
- Dominance is the idea that men dominate mixed gender conversations
- Zimmerman (1975) Found men interrupted more than women in mixed gender conversations (96% of the time)
- Bias as all participants were white males under 35 years old
- Fishman Studied how men do/don't respond that show differences e.g asking less questions is weakness in men not in women
- SpenderArgues womens language is subject to a patriarchial power system. Men remmain in power as there is no way to tackle this.
- Zimmerman (1975) Found men interrupted more than women in mixed gender conversations (96% of the time)
- Deborah Tannen - You Just Don't Understand
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