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Gender Theorist ; Robin Lakoff's study of women, 1975 "Language and Women's place" |
-Interrupt less (speak less) - Hypercorrect Grammar - Fillers and hedging (So, Umm) = lack of authority and uncertainty - No expletives (F*ck off) - Tag questions are sign of weakness (I'm right aren't I?) - Reasoning = men in position of dominance |
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Gender Theorist ; Dale Spender, 1970s "Manmade Language" |
- Dominance model - Male sentences using hypercorrect & formal grammar - Thinks language itself was gender marked and specific - Generic pronouns "He" assumes male reader - Address terms = "Mr" is honourific compared to "Miss" or "Mrs" |
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Gender Theorist ; O'Barr Atkins 1980 |
- Men from lower classes used many featues similar to females - Concluded that these features were used by the disempowered and not because they are women |
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Gender Theorist ; Pamela Fishman, 1985, "Interaction; the work women do" |
- Women us tag questions and other features to help men out |
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Gender theorist ; Janet Holmes, 1992 |
- Lakoff's "findings were grossly misleading" - Hedges and fillers = multifunctional - Tag questions are supportive and polite |
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Gender Theorist ; Jane Pilkington 1990s |
- Women = In same Sex conversations use collab features and support each other - Women = anecdotal to support each other - Tag questions = facilitate - Difference model - Men are less complementary to each other and more competitive |
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Gender Theorist ; Jennifer Coates, 1990s, "Real men Talk" |
- Men 'Hold the floor' (talking for long periods of time each) - Men talk about drinking and cars - Women overlap but men don't - Verbal Duelling - Masculine = boasting and swearing - Women talk about house, scandal, children etc |
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Gender Theorist ; Deborah Tannen, "You just don't understand" |
- Thinks it is like men and women speak different languages - "Natural and inescapable difference" - Men and women have totally different ways of speaking and that is why the don't understand each other - Deborah Cameron has counter argument |
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Gender Theorist ; Penelope Eckert |
- Gender is socially constructed and can be learnt - There has been a misleading merging of gender to mean biological sex |
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Gender Theorist ; Deborah Cameron |
- Women brought up to use language a certain way - Linguistic research that focuses on gender is limited, both genders are intrinsically varied - No "Natural" difference in men and women, women's language is due to social isolation - Said Tannen's theory was nonsense and just the way men and women socialise |
