Language + Gender
- Created by: 0045253
- Created on: 20-05-22 14:24
View mindmap
- Language + Gender
- Robin Lakoff, Deficit Theory
- Women:
- Apologise more
- Use euphemisms
- show they are listening by using minimal responses
- Use super-polite forms
- Use tag questions
- Use empty adjectives; more for emotional evaluation
- Use more intensifiers
- Use more adjectives to describe approximate amounts
- Women:
- Deborah Tannen, Difference Modal
- Cooperative Overlap: Interrupting to show
support
- Competitive Overlap: Interrupting to gain control
- Cooperative Overlap: Interrupting to show
support
- Gendered-marked words
- Overt marking
- Titles
- Representation
- Miller and Swift
- Emphasis on physical characteristics and age when referring to women
- Language used to describe women’s actions implied that women behave irrationally and emotionally
- Genderlect
- Robin Lakoff, Deficit Theory
Comments
No comments have yet been made