Language and Gender
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- Language and Gender
- Otto Jespersen
- Women: unfunny, conservative, limited vocabulary
- Men: innovative, coining new terms
- Deborah Cameron
- Verbal hygiene: girls are taught at a young age to speak in a clean style
- Allyson Jule: this is attempting to impose social order on the world
- Verbal hygiene: girls are taught at a young age to speak in a clean style
- Judith Butler
- Gender performativitypeople talk in a reflection of their gender
- Dale Spender
- Man made langauge: language is geared towards men
- Men are standard, women are secondary
- Man made langauge: language is geared towards men
- Julia Stanley
- Marked terms and lexical asymmetry affixes
- Deborah Tannen
- Women want support intimacy understand feelings proposal compromise
- Jane Pilkington
- Women are collaborative men cause disputes
- Konraed Kuiper
- Men swear and insult for solidarity
- Tag questions
- Robin Lakoff
- Women are weak they use hedging, apologies, intensifiers, precise colour terms, empty adjectives, weak expletives, specialised domestic vocab and tags
- Janet Holmes
- Women use effective and facilitative tags for support, selflessly
- Men use modal tags for answers, selfishly
- Robin Lakoff
- Zimmerman and West
- Men interrupt 96% more
- Beattie argues saying they didn't look at the type of interruptions
- Men interrupt 96% more
- Labov
- Overt prestige women are closer to RP
- Covert prestige men fit in with surroundings
- Cheshire
- Men use more non standard forms like clipping
- Womens langauge is more personally developed
- MORE TO IT
- O'Barr and Atkins
- Language is context dependent, an expression of power
- Mary Talbot
- Gender is a social construct and people are socialised to act these ways
- O'Barr and Atkins
- Trudgil
- Men use non-standard forms to gain covert prestige to appear tough or down to earth
- Women use correct and hyper-correct form
- Otto Jespersen
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- DIFERENCE women's and men's language is different possibly due to socialising in different groups with different norms, values and expectations COATES TANNEN HOLMES PILKINGTON
- DOMINANCE women's speech is less assertive and lacks power, men and women talk like men have the power ZIMMERMAN AND WEST FISHMAN
- DENYER perhaps men and women speak differently because that's what we expect to find, social class could be a link and prejudices could be a factor in identifying differences
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