She believes that the differences start in childhood where parents use more words to girls about feelings and use more verbs towards boys
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What are Deborah Tannen's main claims on the differences of the language used by both genders?
Status vs support, conflict vs compromise, advice vs understanding, orders vs proposals, and independence vs intimacy
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What did she say woman do in their language?
Talk too much, speak in private contexts, build relations, overlap and speak symmetrically
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What did she say men do in their language?
Get more air time, speak in public, negotiate status and avoid failure, speak at one time and speak aysmmetrically
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What is Christine Howe's theory on gender?
She thinks hat men have strategies for gaining power, more likely to respond to put their views across, and that women are more active listeners by using interjections 'uh uh' ' really' - back channelling
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What did Anne Weatherall state about language use between genders?
Women's talk is cooperative, mens talk is competitive, women are likely to use hedging 'sort of', women speak for less time and less likely to interrupt, and they use more tag questions
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Who carried out the dominance theory?
William O'barr and Bowman Atkins - studied the language in a courtroom finding women lawyers to be assertive/interrupt which Pilkington argued for males, concluded weak language traits are powerless language features rather than female langauge
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What did Robin Lakoff state about women's language?
They hedge, use super polite forms, speak in italics and use prosodic features, overuse qualifiers, use modal verbs, use empty adjectives
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What are Deborah Tannen's main claims on the differences of the language used by both genders?
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Status vs support, conflict vs compromise, advice vs understanding, orders vs proposals, and independence vs intimacy
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