Language and Gender
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- Created on: 30-04-15 11:44
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- Language and Gender (Spoken Language)
- Robin Lakoff (1975)
- Hedges: "Sort of", "Kind of"
- Super Polite Forms: "Would you mind"
- Tag Questions: "You're going to dinner, aren't you?"
- Speak in Italics: "I'm so tired"
- Empty Adjectives: "Lovely", "Adorable"
- Use Modal Construction: "Should", "Would"
- Use Indirect Commands or Requests: "It's cold in here" - implies turn the heat up
- Lack a Sense of Humour
- Dominance Model
- Believes men interrupt more than women to show dominance
- Zimmerman and West recorded 31 mixed sex conversations. In 11, men interrupted 46 times, women interrupted 2 times
- Believes men interrupt more than women to show dominance
- Difference Model (Deborah Tannen)
- Status vs. Support
- Men tend to use conversation in a competitive way in order to stop others dominating them. Whereas women tend to use conversation to seek comfort and reassurance
- Independence vs. Intimacy
- Women tend to seek support and comfort, which leads them to confide in others. However, men tend to act on their own as asking others would appear to be a loss of status and power
- Information vs. Feeling
- Men prefer to receive only the vital information, whereas women tend to talk about how they feel and talk for longer
- Orders vs. Proposals
- Women offer make suggestions, for example "why don't we?", whereas men prefer more direct approaches and imperatives.
- Conflict vs. Compromise
- When faced with conflict men appear to be extremely vocal, whereas women appear to accept it but complain subsequently
- Advice vs. Understanding
- Men tend to come up with simple solutions to a problem, whereas women seek comfort and for someone to support her.
- Status vs. Support
- Robin Lakoff (1975)
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