Language and Gender

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  • Created on: 24-05-17 18:53
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  • Language and Gender
    • Lakoff
      • Published 10 Basic assumptions of women's language.
        • Hedging
        • Super Polite forms
        • Tag Questions
        • Speaking in italics
        • Empty adjectives
        • Hyper Correct grammar and punctuation
        • Direct Quotation
        • Lack of sense of humor.
        • Special Lexicon
        • Question intonation on declarative statements
    • Zimmerman and West
      • Interruptions were distributed evenly in a same sex conversation
      • Interruptions were distributed unevenly in a cross-sex conversation
        • 96% of interruptions were done by males.
    • Tannen
      • There's a difference in the way that men and women talk
        • Status vs Support
        • Independence vs Intimacy
        • Advice vs Understanding
        • Information vs Feelings
        • Orders vs Proposals
        • Untitled
    • Trudgill
      • Discovered that women are more likely to use standard English
        • Overt Prestige
          • A status that is seen as better in the community and more high status.
        • Covert Prestige
          • A status that is seen as worse in the community and more working class.
    • Pamela Fishman (Conversational Shitwork)
      • Tag questions are used to start conversations by females.
      • Males don't start the conversations as often because they want to keep their dominance role.

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