Language and Gender

Lakoff - Womens Language]

• Affective adjectives (describe feelings or emotions)
• Empathetic Stress
• Hedges 'sort of'
• Hypercorrect grammar
• Tag questions
• Hyponyms for colours
• Rising intonation for questions
• Super polite forms (euphimistic language/avoid taboo lexis)
• Use of the intensifier 'so'
• Vocab based on womens work (dress making)

Janet Holms - Tag questions

• Affective - lack of information 'isnt it?'
• Facilitative - expressing solidarity (we liked that, didnt we?
• Softening - soften criticism or commands 'give me the hairbush, will you?'

Tannen - DIfference

Status vs suppor

independance vs intamacy

Advice vs understanding

information vs feelings

oders vs proposals

Fishman - division of…