language & Gender - Robin Lakoff
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- Created on: 15-04-13 15:49
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- Language & Gender - Robin Lakoff
- women also use empty adjectives such as; "divine" "lovely"
- women use wh imperatives such as; why dont you go outside?
- women use: hedge phrases such as "sort of" "like" they also speak in italics for e.g. "so" "quite"
- women also use indirect command whereas men use direct commnads
- women also overuse qualifiers such as; "i think"
- women also use tag questions such as; "you're going to dinner aren't you?"
- women also use polite forms such as; "would you mind"
- women also use empty adjectives such as; "divine" "lovely"
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