In my observations I observed two sets of groups. One group consisted of two females while the other group was between a male and female only. In Ahearn 's “Language and Gender,” she goes on to say how the genders do not have a significant difference in the way they talk as it has been stereotypically thought to be, she claims that the difference is slight, close to zero (199). Thus, in regards to whether or not the genders performed their gender linguistically, each group had different outcomes. The group of only females talked continuously keeping the conversation going for a great length of time. They never seemed to run out of conversation, constantly changing the topic to keep the conversation going. In regards to the male and female group,
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Markers that appeared where the hedges, super polite forms, tag questions, speaking in italics, empty adjectives and question intonation in declarative contexts (Blum 402). Such markers came up with observation one, the group talked about various topics one being about what they do when they are in the valley, the females used different markers such as; “like” “totally” “very” “super” and “cute” continuously while they talked. The context in which each marker was used is as follows; the hedge marker “like” was used repeatedly by one girl, thus there wasn’t specifically one moment in which she actually used it. She also used the polite form marker of “totally” whenever another friend asked a question or made a comment as to what she said, she would begin her sentence with “Yeah totally…” and continue on with her sentence. The empty adjective markers were “very, super, and cute” which was used by another girl when she was describing what stores she goes to when down in the valley. She would say, “The dresses were super cute and colorful” or “The shoes were very, very comfortable, I love shopping for shoes there!” The marker “very” was then used when she began to talk about what she did with friends, such as hang out, go the movies or concerts. She would say the event was “very fun” or “very exciting” and so …show more content…
However, just based on that one observation, it can be concluded that not much difference was present, only the aspect of more smiling with the female as opposed to the male. With the first observation, all the females seemed to equally use the markers Lakoff talked about, however since there was no males present it cannot be concluded with this group whether or not they used the makers more than
Markers that appeared where the hedges, super polite forms, tag questions, speaking in italics, empty adjectives and question intonation in declarative contexts (Blum 402). Such markers came up with observation one, the group talked about various topics one being about what they do when they are in the valley, the females used different markers such as; “like” “totally” “very” “super” and “cute” continuously while they talked. The context in which each marker was used is as follows; the hedge marker “like” was used repeatedly by one girl, thus there wasn’t specifically one moment in which she actually used it. She also used the polite form marker of “totally” whenever another friend asked a question or made a comment as to what she said, she would begin her sentence with “Yeah totally…” and continue on with her sentence. The empty adjective markers were “very, super, and cute” which was used by another girl when she was describing what stores she goes to when down in the valley. She would say, “The dresses were super cute and colorful” or “The shoes were very, very comfortable, I love shopping for shoes there!” The marker “very” was then used when she began to talk about what she did with friends, such as hang out, go the movies or concerts. She would say the event was “very fun” or “very exciting” and so …show more content…
However, just based on that one observation, it can be concluded that not much difference was present, only the aspect of more smiling with the female as opposed to the male. With the first observation, all the females seemed to equally use the markers Lakoff talked about, however since there was no males present it cannot be concluded with this group whether or not they used the makers more than