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gender theory
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- 1what is genderlect?is is a term used by Deborah Tannen to describe how the conversation of men and women is different
- 2what are the 6 features of genderlect?-status v support
- independence v intimacy
-advice v understanding
-information v feeling
- orders v proposals
- conflict v compromise - 3what is anaphoria?reference back in the text
- 4what is exophoric?reference outside the text
- 5what is cataphoric referencing?reference further forward in the text e.g. foreshadowing
- 6what is robin lackoff's theory?- deficit approach-
she claimed women use:
- hedges, 'sort of'
- use polite forms, 'would you mind...'
-tag questions, ... aren't you?
-empty adjectives, divine, lovely, adorable
-direct quotation
-special lexicon- have more words for colours
- question intonation and declarative statements- raising the pitch at the end
- speak less frequently
- overuse qualifiers- ' i think that'
-apologise more
- avoid expletives
-indirect commands or requests 'my isn't it cold in here'-really a request
-use more intensifiers e.g so
-lack sense of humour often do not understand jokes - 7what is wrong with lackoff's theory?it is becoming outdated because in western culture women have more power also it is now common for women to swear.
- 8what is zimmerman and west's theory?- dominance approach
-in 11 conversations between men and women, men used 46 interruptions while women only 2
- - 9what is wrong with zimmerman and west's study?it is a tiny sample so it is unrepresentative and less accurate
- 10what did Beattie say about their study?- one man might have been chatty which has a disproportional effect on the total
- interruptions do not always reflect dominance they can also mean interest and involvement - 11what is Beatties study?-women and men interrupt with more or less equal frequency
- he found men interrupted more but with an insignificant margin
- his findings are not quoted as much because it doesn't fit with what people want to hear - 12what is Pamela fishman's theory?- conversations between the sexes sometimes fails, not because of anything inherent in the way women talk, but because of how men respond
- women ask men questions for information not because of a personality weakness - 13what is peter trudgill's theory?-men were less likely and women more likely to use prestige pronunciation of certain speech sound
-men use covert prestige to show 'toughness' and 'down to earth' - 14what is jennifer coates' theory?she argues that all-woman conversations can fall into one of the following categories:
- house talk: information connected to occupation
- scandal: judging behaviour of women
-bitching: overt expression of women's anger at their inferior status
-chatting: intimate gossip nurturing others - 15what is Deborah Cameron's theory?- women have been instructed in the proper ways of talking just as they have been instructed in the proper way of dressing
- verbal hygiene
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- AS - Level English language (gender) Flashcards on gender theory, created by Truely Costen on 22/02/2016.
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