Language & gender mind map
- Created by: holly young
- Created on: 08-01-13 10:03
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- Language & Gender
- Gender stereotypes in spoken language
- Women Gossip
- Men are strong and silent
- Men talk about important topics (government/ money/ business
- women talk about domestic & personal trivia
- Women screech whereas men have rich, deep, reassuring tones conveying confidence and authority
- Gender & caual coversation
- talking seems less affected by conciousness of gender difference& to be more relaxed
- characteristics of Casual conversation include:
- Non-fluency features
- Adjacency pairs
- Topic and speaker shift
- Vague language
- Back-channel behavious
- Politeness markers
- overlaps
- interruptions
- Gender grammar & lexis
- Researchers say...
- Men interrupt women even if women are of a higher status
- take longer turns
- Tend to reject a womens topic choice
- Men interrupt women even if women are of a higher status
- MEN
- use imparatives as directives
- Use stronger swear words
- higher proportion of slang & colloquial lexis
- use more hypotaxis (embedded structures) in sentences
- WOMEN
- more evaluatiative lexis
- use more intensifiers
- more politeness markers
- Use more parataxis (linked structures)
- innitiate exchanges more than men
- use more back channel behaviour
- minimal responses
- declaratives
- rising intonation
- Researchers say...
- Gender stereotypes in spoken language
- Even Silence in conversations can have a functions
- Language & Gender
- Gender stereotypes in spoken language
- Women Gossip
- Men are strong and silent
- Men talk about important topics (government/ money/ business
- women talk about domestic & personal trivia
- Women screech whereas men have rich, deep, reassuring tones conveying confidence and authority
- Gender & caual coversation
- talking seems less affected by conciousness of gender difference& to be more relaxed
- characteristics of Casual conversation include:
- Non-fluency features
- Adjacency pairs
- Topic and speaker shift
- Vague language
- Back-channel behavious
- Politeness markers
- overlaps
- interruptions
- Gender grammar & lexis
- Researchers say...
- Men interrupt women even if women are of a higher status
- take longer turns
- Tend to reject a womens topic choice
- Men interrupt women even if women are of a higher status
- MEN
- use imparatives as directives
- Use stronger swear words
- higher proportion of slang & colloquial lexis
- use more hypotaxis (embedded structures) in sentences
- WOMEN
- more evaluatiative lexis
- use more intensifiers
- more politeness markers
- Use more parataxis (linked structures)
- innitiate exchanges more than men
- use more back channel behaviour
- minimal responses
- declaratives
- rising intonation
- Researchers say...
- Gender stereotypes in spoken language
- refusal to participate can have a controlled strategy
- could be an expression of disempowerment
- Language & Gender
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