Language & Gender
- Created by: Charlotte Emily Turner
- Created on: 05-02-18 11:39
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- Language & Gender
- Deficit
- Lakoff (1975)
- Women have no sense of humour
- Submissive
- Society 'conditions' women to be like this!
- Empty adjectives = avoid specific opinions
- Euphemisms (polite)
- Indirect requests (do not want to appear demanding)
- See more things as offensive, so apologise more
- Hedges: Express uncertainty
- Patriarchy
- Dominance
- Zimmerman & West
- Men: 46 Women: 2
- Beattie
- Men: 34.1 Women: 33.8
- Spender: Men made language
- Women will naturally be at a disadvantage
- More pejorative terms for women than for men!
- Women attempt to change the subject more than men, but are less successful
- Women: 20% success rate
- Men: 91% success rate
- Zimmerman & West
- Difference
- Tannen
- Status VS Support
- Report & Rapport Talk
- Specialist Lexis: Used equally, but with different topics
- e.g. women - colours
- e.g. men - cars
- Men & women have different purposes/goals - SO, their language is different
- Trudgill: Women use velar nasal /nj/ (OVERT)
- Men use alveolar /n/ (COVERT)
- Tannen
- O'Barr & Atkins
- 30 months
- Powerless Language is influenced by position, not gender
- Deficit
- Semantic Derogation
- Lexis seems equal, but it is NOT!
- Master: A man who has people working for him
- Mistress
- Official: Woman in a position of authority
- Popular: Woman having a sexual relationship with a married man
- Bachelor & Spinster, technically, mean the same thing
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