Power + gender theories

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Wareing (1999)
Instrumental power (state/law), personal power (job/occupation), political power (law), social group power (friends + family, social class, age, gender), influential (persuasive, make us act)
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Coulthard + Sinclar (1975, 1992)
IRF model - initiation, response, feedback
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Goffman
Politeness strategies - face (self-esteem/emotional needs), positive face (need to be wanted/liked), negative face (freedom of thought, not imposed on), face-threatening (act that threatens pos/neg. face needs (modal verbs, eye contact)
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Dyer
Advert, invite audience
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Fairclough (2001)
Relationship between producer and receiver, synthetic personalisation, modals, epistemic modality, deontic modality (need/obligation), ideology ALSO interactions are unequal encounters, stereotypes can influence (play on them)
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Paul Grice
Co-operation is norm but don't have to follow (show power)
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Lakoff (1975)
Women use hedges and fillers, apologetic + indirect requests, tag questions, intensifiers, speak less, fewer expletives = indecisive, needy, weak
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Trudgill (1983)
Women's RP more prestigious
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Cheshire (1982)
Teenagers use more non-standard
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O'Barr + Atkins
Men and women use same language, main difference is lower class - they feel powerless
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Zimmerman + West
Dominance model (men dominate conversations)
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Tannen
Men = social status and independence, direct orders, interest in factual info Women = interest in forming bonds, polite, indirect, understand, support
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Cameron (2007)
Biased, differences actually quite small should focus on similarities
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Advert, invite audience

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Relationship between producer and receiver, synthetic personalisation, modals, epistemic modality, deontic modality (need/obligation), ideology ALSO interactions are unequal encounters, stereotypes can influence (play on them)

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