Sex is the biological characteristics of someone whereas Gender is a social construct of expected charateristics
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What is sexism?
Attitude and behaviour based upon traditional stereotypes of sexual roles.
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What is grammatical order of precedence?
Where the male pronoun tents to precede the female when addressing them together such as ' husband and wife' and 'Mr and Mrs'
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What is the diminutive form?
The female lesser version of 'male' roles e.g actress, waitress, hostess
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What is stereotype?
A generalisation, usually exaggerated or offensive, used to distinguish a group
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Who proposed the difference model and what is it?
Tannen and Fishman. Men and Women use language differently because they have been brought up in and for different purposes
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Who proposed the dominance model and what is it?
Zimmerman and West. The idea that men dominate in talk as they are dominant in society. This is why we see men overlap and interrupt in mixed sex conversations
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Who proposed the deficit model and what is it?
Lakoff. The idea that male language is the standard and female language falls short and it weak.
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Who proposed the diversity model and what is it?
Hyde. Gender is one of many factors that influences language.
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Define verbal hygeine.
The theory that women have been trained to speak properly at a young age.
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What is the 'male as norm'
Male terms like 'mankind', 'policeman', 'fireman' etc.
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What is overt and covert prestige and what gender is theorised to use each?
Overt prestige - Females - they want to seem well mannered. Covert prestige - Males - tougher by swearing and breaking grammatical rules
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Sapir-Wharf theory is...
The idea that language controls the way we think.
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Theorist: Fishman
Women use more tag questions
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Theorist: Trudgill
Women use more 'prestigious' language - they hypercorrect
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Theorist: Cheshire
Women - Overt. Men - Covert.
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Theorist: Coates
Women are more supportive and they use tag questions more
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Theorist: Jones
Women speak in 4 ways: House talk, Scandal, Bitching and Chatting
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Theorist: Cameron
We construct gender identity to ourselves.
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What is sexism?
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Attitude and behaviour based upon traditional stereotypes of sexual roles.
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