its midddle class womens need for satus so they use standard english and hypercorrections
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what is trugill's covert prestige theory about
it is about middle class men and how they dont mind using slang and non standard english with things like expletives
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what is tannens report rapport talk about
men and womes - physical oriention - status and connection - directness& indirectness - public and private talk - ritual opposition - convertational style
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what is an adress term
is Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms
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diminutive suffixes
using ess or ette on the ends of words to make them feminine like waitress
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generic terms
man and he are used to explain all people i.e. man made
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lexical asymmertry
pairs of words that seem to be equal oftern are not with the female term having been degraded in some way
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marked terms
we say ladydoctor becuse if we say doctor they assume its a man's job and the same with saying male nurse as the assume it would be a women that is the nurse
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semantic fields
terms for women oftern derive from items of food, clothes or animals
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what is hedging
using phrases like sort of kind of
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Front
what are the different theories
Back
-lakoff - face theory -positive politeness -gracie's maxims -accomidation -tannen
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