Language and Gender

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what is the difference model?
men and women are inherently different and therefore speak differently
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what is the dominance model?
men dominate in conversation and women have to work around this
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what is the deficit model?
male speech is the norm and women's speech is lacking features from it
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who proposed that there are more similarities than differences between male and female language and when?
Janet Hyde (2005)
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what were Tannen's six Oppositions (1990)?
independence/intimacy
status/support
orders/proposals
information/feelings
advice/understanding
conflict/compromise
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who theorised that women's language was lacking due to features such as "lack of humour", "hedging" and "uptalk" and when?
Robin Lakoff (1973)
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who rejected ideas by Tannen and Lakoff about men and women's language being inherently different due to the gender difference and when?
Deborah Cameron (2008)
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whose theory did Cameron support when stating that language is something people perform in order to create their identity?
Judith Butler (1990)
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why can gender not be fully ruled out as a factor in language use?
issues of sexism and toxic masculinity affect language used by all genders
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what is the dominance model?

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who proposed that there are more similarities than differences between male and female language and when?

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what were Tannen's six Oppositions (1990)?

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