Language & Gender theorists
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- Created on: 26-04-13 14:17
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- Language & Gender theorists
- Lakoff: said that women use tag questions to seek assurance
- Jennifer Coates: said that working class people are associated with tough / rough characteristics
- Sara Mills: male terms tend to be positive wherees female term are negative
- Trudgill: men use non-standard english to gain covert prestige. Whereas women use hypercorrect grammer
- Tannen: men use commands and women make proposals
- Pamela Fisherman: in relationships women ask more questions to find a topic the man wants to talk about it
- Janet Holmes: men use tag questions to check facts and women use them to include everyone in a conversation (co-operative style of speech)
- Kathy O'Leary: the speaker's role in the converstion is a better predictor of tag question use than gender
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