Language and gender theories
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- Language and gender theories
- Lakoff
- Women use more tag questions
- For reassurance
- Women talk less
- Women use week explitives
- to be lady like to maintain their expectations from society
- Women use more tag questions
- Trudgill
- Men use non-standard pronunciation
- they associate it with a higher social status
- Men use non-standard pronunciation
- Cheshire
- Men use more non-standard pronunciation
- Zimmerman and West
- Men dominate
- Coates
- All-female talk is cooperative and speakers support each others right to speak
- Pilkington
- Women are more polite
- Men are less complimentary
- Kuiper
- All-male talk used insults
- Lakoff
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