THEORISTS
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- Created on: 06-01-16 10:16
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- LANGAUGE AND GENDER
- ROBIN LAKOFF (1975)
- Found that 'women's language' lacked real authority, and consisted of: tag questions, hedges, fillers, politeness, intensifiers and weak expletive terms.
- O'BARR & ATKINS
- The Deficit Approach
- ROBIN LAKOFF (1975)
- Found that 'women's language' lacked real authority, and consisted of: tag questions, hedges, fillers, politeness, intensifiers and weak expletive terms.
- ROBIN LAKOFF (1975)
- Observed courtroom trials. Lower-class or less- authoritative people used Lakoff's 'women's language' so therefore renamed it 'powerless language'
- The Deficit Approach
- DEBORAH TANNEN(1990)
- Explains the differences in male and female speech styles
- Status vs. support
- independence vs. intimacy
- Advice vs. understanding
- Information vs. feelings
- Orders vs. proposals
- Conflict vs. compromise
- The Difference Approach
- Explains the differences in male and female speech styles
- ZIMMERMAN AND WEST (1975)
- Found that in their (small) data, 96% of interruptions in mixed-talk were made by men.
- Women had restricted linguistic freedom. Men sought out to impose dominance by applying constraints.
- The Dominance Approach
- ROBIN LAKOFF (1975)
- HOWEVER DOES CHALLENGE LAKOFF
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