Male language and conversational features
A mindmap giving details of male langage and conversation.
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- Created on: 09-11-13 12:10
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- Male Language and conversational features
- Tannen's contrasts
- Feelings
- Understanding
- Proposals
- Independance
- Compromise
- Stauts
- Komarovsky
- Men speak to impart their knowledge.
- Regect topics they're not interested in.
- Speak about sport, politics, business and money
- Robin Lakoff
- Relegate women to sex object or servant
- Stronger expletives
- Men are capable of humor
- Janet Holmes
- Men use modal tag questions
- Show uncertainty
- Robin Lakoff
- Relegate women to sex object or servant
- Stronger expletives
- Men are capable of humor
- Men use modal tag questions
- Zimmerman and West
- Men interrupt more
- Men speak a more colloquial way
- Men speak with more volume
- Coates
- Men lean back, avoid looking at eachother
- Jump from topic to topic
- Tell anecdotes making them seem superior
- compete for dominance
- Heirarchy
- Value speakership
- Tannen's contrasts
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