Language and Gender theories
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- Lakoffs deficit approach: Sociolisation ensures that women remain deficient
- Language and Gender: Theories
- Trudgil and Eisikovits: men use more non-standard forms
- Women use standard grammar
- More polite forms e.g. euphemisms
- Weak expletive eg "oh, sugar"
- Hypercorrect grammer - avoidance of double negatives etc
- Men diverge to covert prestige
- Demotic language
- End dropping
- liaison and elision
- Women use standard grammar
- Difference approach: suggests men use language to build status where as women use language to build connections
- Women use more tag questions
- Women use more back channeling
- Women use more intensifiers
- Relational verb processes are attributed to women more than men
- Mental verb processes are attributed to women more than men
- Dominance theory: suggests that men dominate in mixed-sex conversations
- Men interrupt more
- Men frame the conversation
- Men use more deontic modal verbs
- Material verb processes are attributed to males more than females
- Verbal verb processes are attributed to men more than women
- Trudgil and Eisikovits: men use more non-standard forms
- Women often use minimal responses
- Expletives phrases such as "oh dear" which have no real value
- Language and Gender: Theories
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