gender theorists
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- Created on: 15-01-18 17:26
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- language and gender theorists
- peter trudgill
- Robin Lakoff
- zimmerman and west
- o'barr and atkins
- Jenny Chesire
- fishman
- jennifer coates
- deborrah tannen
- jane pilklington
- janet Holmes
- coupland and bishop
- derborrah cameron
- wanted to find out why peoples way of talking varied
- suffix focus
- men use nore non standard pronunciat-ion than women
- Womens language lacked real authority
- created politeness principle
- believed that womens language was power less
- to make women to seem more submissive
- wanted to find out the if presence of interruptions depended on gender
- 90% of conversations includeded interuptions in mens coversation
- devolped from Lakoffs findings
- differences are situation specific
- relied on authority
- relationships between boys and girls and how it affected grammar
- more likley to confrom when put in same gendered groups
- changed the way they spoke around each other
- dialect variation is a consious choice. influenced by social attitude
- use of tag questions in mixed gender conversations
- tag questions are used by women to maintain conversations with women
- women used due to lack of confidence (intimidation)
- women have controll
- different styles of speaking are due to all gendered frienship groups
- created stereotypes within langauage
- women use epistemic modal forms e.g. perhaps to avoid threatening facts
- female co-operation
- difference theory
- women want to have support and understanding
- men want to stand alone and do things their own way
- reserach on conversations in a bakery in 9 months
- women talked to affirmed solidarity
- men challegned each others points
- wheather men and women spoke differently
- gender? status?power?
- doctor-paitent conversations were interupted more than male physicians
- in buisness, men dominated
- men have more power
- male breadwinner
- scottish and edingborough english showed higher prestiege judgements
- scottish people believed accents with a celtic background held higher presteige
- shows changes in authority of the scottish accent
- verbal hygeine - gender diversity
- blamed how children are taught english
- spoken language depended on lexis and context
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