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Gender models - Coggle Diagram
Gender models
Deficit
Male speech is standard
Women's speech is weak
Doesn't reach the same standard as men
Otto Jespersen :check:
Women:
Talk alot
Have a small vocab of unnecessary words
Are indirect
Use no taboo
Women are emotional rather than grammatical
1920s
Females degrade the english language
Females speak without thought
Dominance
Women and men's speech is different
Reflects that men are more powerful in society
Robin Lakoff :check:
1975
Hedge phrases
Indirect commands
Women have a special lexicon
Polite forms ''would you mind..''
Women lack a sense of humour
Women apologise more
Women have hypercorrect grammar/pronunciation
Zimmerman and West
Trudgill
Difference
Woemn and men speak differently
They have different aims
Neither style is better than the other
Deborah Tannen :check:
Status vs support
Independence vs Intimacy
Advice vs Understanding
Orders vs Proposals
Conflict vs Compromise
Raised with different social expectations
Men compete/Women cooperate
Neither is superior
Fishman
Holmes
Diversity
Differences are caused by many factors
Age, Power, Gender
More differences in 2 people of the same sex than different
Deborah Cameron:check:
Beattie
Milroy
O'Barr and Atkins