Language and Gender overview
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- Language and Gender
- Theorists
- Zimmerman and West
- Dominance Approach
- Lakoff
- Deficit Approach
- Tannen
- Difference Approach
- Grice
- Maxims of speech
- Zimmerman and West
- Features
- Tag questions
- A group of words that turn a declarative into an interrogative
- Hedging device
- A linguistic device used to express uncertainty
- Boosting device
- A linguistic device used to intensify the force of an expression for added emphasis or power
- Empty adjectives
- Adjectives that are applied to soften and add friendly elements to the sentence, although they are do not add any particularly meaningful content.
- Tag questions
- Concepts
- Marked form
- That which stands out as different from a norm
- Covert prestige
- A form of high status given to non-standard forms
- Covert marking
- Marking that is understood
- Folklinguistics
- Semantic derogation
- The sense of negative meaning or connotation that some lexical items have attached to them
- Semantic deterioration
- The process by which negative connotations become attached to lexical items
- Overt marking
- Marking that takes place through affixation or modification
- Unmarked form
- The measured norm, against which marked lexical items can be compared
- Overt prestige
- A form of high status given to standard forms
- Marked form
- Context
- Genre
- The term for any category of literature
- What style is the text?
- How did the audience access the text- posted to them/ online?
- Audience
- Who is the text aimed at?
- Who is likely to read the text?
- Is their more than one target audience?
- How is the text being read- online/hard copy?
- Purpose
- Why was the text written?
- What does the text aim to do?
- What different purposes is the text being read for?
- Time, place, author
- When was the text written?
- Where was the text written?
- Who wrote the text?
- How old is this text?
- How does this affect the features used?
- Genre
- Theorists
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