language an gender theorist

Robin Lakoff (1975)
Claimed that much of women's language lacked real authority when compared to that used by men and proposed a set of features that characterised women's language as deficient when compared to men's.

Peter Trudgill (1974)
Studied how male and female speakers pronounced the suffix -ing in Norwich.  Men tended to use a non standard pronunciation and women over reported.

O'Barr and Atkins (1980)
Discovered that features of uncertain speech were more dependent on power relations rather than gender.

Jennifer Coates (1989)
Suggested that…