Jennifer Coates and Deborah Jones

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  • Created on: 26-01-17 21:18
What did Coates look at?
All-female conversations, and builds on Tannen's ideas
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What study does she give useful comment on?
Deborah Jones' 1990 study of women's oral culture
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What name does Jones give to women's oral culture?
'Gossip'
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What are the four categories of female language within 'gossip'?
'house talk', 'scandal', 'bitching' and 'chatting'
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Define 'house talk'.
Its distinguishing function is the exchange of information and resources connected with the female role as an occupation
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Define 'scandal'.
A considered judging of the behaviour of others, and women in particular. It is usually made in terms of the domestic morality, of which women have been appointed guardians
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Define 'bitching'.
The overt expression of women's anger at their restricted role/inferior status. Expressed in private and to other women only. Women who ***** aren't expecting change; they want to make complaints in a place where their anger will be understood
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Define 'chatting'.
This is the most intimate form of gossip, a mutual self-disclosure, a transaction where women use to their own advantage the skills they have learned as part of their job of nurturing others
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What study does she give useful comment on?

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Deborah Jones' 1990 study of women's oral culture

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What are the four categories of female language within 'gossip'?

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Define 'house talk'.

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