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Consolidating language and gender - Coggle Diagram

- - - - male language is seen as the ‘norm’ and women’s language is viewed as ‘deficient’ to men’s. Identifying women’s language as different to that of men and Judging women’s language as inferior.
    - - The ‘dominance’ approach occurred against the historical and political backdrop of second-wave feminism, which had a central goal of removing gender inequality (look back at your research resource to remind yourself of this).
        
        This approach understands men as positioned above women because of their social and political power. From a language perspective:
        
        Men were seen as using language as a means of reinforcing or maintaining their power in conversations,
        
        Zimmerman & West (1975) found that men were responsible for 96% of interruptions in mixed-sex conversations
        
        Men speak more, have longer turns and, in conversations with women, are interrupted less and interrupt more.
    - - Mars & Venus: The Great Divide
        
        status vs support, advice vs understanding, orders vs proposals, conflict vs compromise, independence vs intimacy, information vs feelings