Language and Gender
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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
- Published 10 Basic assumptions of women's language.
- 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
- There's a difference in the way that men and women talk
- 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.
- Overt Prestige
- Discovered that women are more likely to use standard English
- 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.
- Lakoff
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