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24 Cards in this Set
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Women are delicate and easily offended. |
Otto Jesperson |
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Women have a limited vocabulary. |
Otto Jesperson |
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Men invent new terms while women are conservative. |
Otto Jesperson |
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Women have a dulling influence on language. |
Otto Jesperson. |
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Women are socialised into sounding like ladies. |
Robin Lakoff |
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In language women are either powerless or unfeminine. |
Robin Lakoff |
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Women use empty adjectives. |
Robin Lakoff |
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Women use more intensifiers than men. |
Robin Lakoff |
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Women use tag questions to offer the turn. |
Robin Lakoff |
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Women use more questions which makes them seem less assertive. |
Robin Lakoff |
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Believes the model of language is deficit for women and dominance for men. |
Robin Lakoff |
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Hedging makes people appear less confident - research done in courtroom. |
O'Barr and Atkins |
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Women can't grab the turn. |
Lakoff and Spender |
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Women allow interruption to take place. |
Lakoff and Spender |
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Hesitation and false starts is a characteristic of women's language. |
Lakoff and Spender |
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Women speak of triviality and gossip which leads to powerlessness. |
Lakoff and Spender |
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Women use epistemis modality - e.g. 'Perhaps you might maybe think of doing...' |
Lakoff and Spender |
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96% of interruptions in mixed sex conversations come from men. |
Zimmerman and West |
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In work, men and women speak according to their status, not gender. |
Sarah Mills |
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Difference theory. |
Deborah Tannen |
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Men report, women rapport. |
Deborah Tannen |
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Men focus on power, women on solidarity. |
Deborah Tannen |
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Sexist language reflects large-scale sexism in society. |
Deborah Cameron |
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Wants to bring conflict back into the gender debate. |
Deborah Cameron |
