Gender Theorists
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- Created on: 09-04-15 14:44
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- Theorists
- Lakoff
- Polite Forms
- Tag Q's
- Empty Adjectives
- Correct Grammer
- Modal verbs
- Intensifiers(so, very)
- Indirect Comands
- Special lexicon (lilac)
- Use 'Wh-'imperatives
- Apologise More
- Avoid taboo or coarse language
- Over use qualifiers
- Lack a sense of Humour
- Jesperson
- Women talk too much
- Use empty adjectives
- Use intensifiers more
- Avoid coarse of gross expresions
- Use euphamistic expressions
- More Fluent Vocab
- Don't think before starting sentances
- Men pause as the want to use precise words
- O'Barr and Atkins
- Looked at court room cases
- Researched powerless language
- Language differences are based on authourityor power . But not Gender
- Dominance Theory
- Zimmerman and West
- Men interrupt to gain control of the topic
- Men interrupt more than women in mixed sex covo.Shows their dominance
- Men fail to use minimal responces indicaring lack of understanding or interest
- Women have more silences in mixed sex convo.
- Women are more likely to be silent after a male interuption
- Thorne and Henley
- Men talk more
- Men are more likely to control topic of convo.
- Men interrupt more
- Fishman
- Men talk twice as long as women
- Women use Q's to keep convo. going
- Koramovsky
- Men - money, business, sprot, work & politics
- Women - Family & personal matters
- Grief
- Parents interupt daughters > sons
- Fathers interupt > mothers
- Tannen
- Men assume roles of 'giver' or 'fixer' of problems as this reinforces statis
- Women overlap to give support
- Men interrupt to be competitive
- Men use more imperative construction than women
- Women use more cloaked imperatives
- Men Vs. Women
- Status Vs. Support
- Independance Vs.Intimacy
- Advice Vs. Undersand
- Information Vs. Feelings
- Orders Vs. Proposals
- Conflict Vs. compromise
- Coates
- Men are more likely to reject topic put forward by women
- Women more likely to accept topic put worward by men
- Women use back channeling
- Women talk about people and feelings not things and abstract ideas
- Women avoid conflict and face theatening
- Men use Q's to elicit info
- Hedges used to encourage disscusion & to avoid appearing thretening
- Coates and Cameron
- Women use Q's moniter whether others are in aggreement
- Men use a competitive talking style and vye for airtime & power
- Women have a co-operative style and build on each others contributions
- Jones
- Women's oral culture:
- Bitching
- Chatting
- Scandal
- House talk
- Women's oral culture:
- Lakoff
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