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19 Cards in this Set
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What is sexed differences in anatomy? |
Anatomical and physiological that arise during puberty tend toward forming measurable variation between sexes. |
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List the anatomy differences in sexes. |
Larynx - male larger tah female
Vocal folds - Longer and thicker in male
Vocal tract length - Longer in male but less frequency
Hormonal - change in age menopause and andropause
Neurology - Broca's and Wernicke's
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What is language? |
Tool for human interaction, adaptation and cultural transmission. |
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What does language act as? |
Acts as symbolic system in which sounds and signs are used to signify meaning between human.
Meaning generated by this symbols are culturally relative and regularly shift. |
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What is Sociolinguistic? |
Study of language in social context, where linguistic variation is measured in correlation to social, economic, regional and political differences. |
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____________ is a fundamental factor in shaping linguistic performances. |
Gender |
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What is Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis? |
The different grammatical structures of human languages constrain and enable different kinds of perceptions among their speakers. |
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What is Universal Grammar? |
Opposing view with Sapir-Wharf
Argue that human brain has evolved a hard wired language centre which all human share and therefore all language share common structure. |
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What is Mid-range Approach? |
Focal vocabularies and ethnosemantics |
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What is Deficit Theory? |
American women were characterized by a notably submissive usage of the common tongue which contrasted with men's language which was seen as much positive and unrestrained. |
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What is Dominance Theory? |
Emphasized the influence of class within the patriarchy. |
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What is Difference theory? |
Emphasized cross cultural comparisons and argued that girls and boys grew up in different segregated sex peer group, learned different ways of relating to one another, have different communication styles. |
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What is the result from Schwartz (2013) study about language used in Facebook? |
Men use possessive 'my' when mentioning their 'wife' and 'girlfriend' more often. More object references and swear words.
Women use more emotional words, first person singulars, and mention more psychological and social. |
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What is Kinesics? |
Examining body movements, facial expression, stances and gestures are to describe the way meaning is broadcast to others through nonverbal actions. |
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What are the findings for Sokolov et al (2011) - Knocking emotions? |
Females tend to excel in accuracy of angry and neutral knocking while male excel in recognizing happy knocking. |
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What is language's grammar? |
The set of rules.
Grammar varies from language to language. |
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What is Speech act? |
Words, through their use in certain settings, that have the power to initiate social action rather than being just a passive collection of sound. |
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What is Queer as folk? |
Usually meant as insult about their sexual orientation was considered strange and socially unacceptable. |
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Why swearing is a Speech act? |
We learn swearing from parents and peer.
Gender play important roles, as boy and girl are socialized differently.
Coping strategies differ to a degree, effect the frequency of use of swear words.
Men are more likely than women to swear when frustrated or angry.
Women are more likely than men to view swearing in anger as loss of control and realize that swearing might effect relationship with others.
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