Language and Gender Theorist

1. Terms of address for males have kept their positive meaning and connotations over time, whereas women’s terms of address tend to warp to have negative connotations. (7, 9)

2. Women suggests that people do things in indirect ways (‘Why don’t we?’) .Men may use, and prefer to hear, a direct imperative. (6, 2, 9, 0)
3. men see language as a means of asserting dominance; women see it as a way of confirming/supporting ideas. (6, 2, 7, 0)
4. .Women refuse to oppose the will of others openly. Sometimes it’s far more effective for a women to assert herself, even at the risk of conflict Men will often resist it vocally, while women may appear to accede, but complain subsequently (8, 2, 10, 0)
5. Women make more precise discriminations in naming colours than do men - that women use more hypernyms such as lavender, mauve etc for purple (6, 1, 6, 6)

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