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6. Fishman found what?

  • Hyper politeness was a means to gain power
  • Tag questions were a means to gain power
  • Hedging was a means to gain power
  • Terms of Endearment were a means to gain power

7. How many Difference types are there?

  • 10
  • 5
  • 8
  • 9

8. Vebal Hygiene explored what

  • Euphemisms in the work place
  • Taboo language
  • PC
  • Women's lack of humour

9. Pilkington found that

  • women support more
  • women collaborate more
  • women dominate more
  • women talk more

10. Jennifer Coates found what

  • women talk simultaneously to be understanding
  • women talk simultaneously to be dominant
  • women talk simultaneously to be supportive
  • women talk simultaneously to be aggressive

11. Who studied: house talk, bitching, chatting and scandal

  • Coates
  • Cameron
  • Jones
  • Trudgill

12. Who explored the Dominance theory

  • Beattie
  • Zimmerman and West
  • Lackoff
  • Jones

13. What was Robin Lackoffs book called

  • Language and Woman's place
  • Woman's place is in the kitchen
  • Woman's place in language
  • Language of a Woman's place

14. Who criticised Zimmerman and West

  • Spender
  • Labov
  • Beatttie - sample size
  • Jones

15. Holmes agreed with

  • Fisherman
  • Trudgill
  • Dubois and Crouch
  • Lackoff

16. Who found that women were more likely to use prestige pronunciation when saying the word 'singing'

  • Cameron
  • Deborah Jones
  • Peter Trudgill
  • Drew and Heritage

17. Jespersen agreed with what model?

  • Difference
  • Diversity
  • Deficit
  • Dominance