Language and Gender Theorists
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- Language & Gender Theorists
- Robin Lakoff
- Hedges- punctuate language with uncertainty.
- Intensifiers- Avoid strong statements
- Tag questions- adds uncertainty to a statement so no-one can appose her point of view.
- Hypercorrect grammar- women are more likely to comply to grammar rules.
- Womens Work Words- their vocab included trivial words because they are regulated to decisions about unimportant subjects.
- Zimmerman & West
- Overlaps - Men overlap with women more. ( 100% of overlaps were male)
- Interruptions- 98% of interruptions were done by men. Women interupt other women more than they would men.
- Silences- same sex convo= 1.35 secs Mixed sex convo= 3.21 secs.
- Deborah Tannen
- Womens Work Words- men usually asssume role of information giver.
- Imperatives- men use more imperatives. Used more on sons than daughters.
- Silences- women see listening and supporting as essential in group bonding.
- Jennifer Coates
- Hedges- men hedge less.
- Tag questions- men use questions to seek information from each other.
- Minimal responses- men are too late on doing this so shows a lack of interest.
- Weak expletives- women use 'oh dear' instead of taboo terms.
- Mira Komarovsky
- 58 working class USA couples.
- Women spoke about family matters while men spoke about sport, work and business.
- Pamela Fishman
- Women use 3 times as many tags.
- Women use the hedge 'you know' 5 times as many.
- Janet Holmes
- Modal tags - Seek information
- Faciliative tags - Draw in the listener
- 61% modal tags were used by men.
- 75% faciliative tags were used by women.
- Robin Lakoff
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