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Gender must-knows, case studies - Coggle Diagram
Gender must-knows
Diversity
Butler: Gender Troubles
There is no standard language for either males or females
A person's language should construct their gender, not the other way round
Can result in performative langauge 'Bruv' 'cute'
MIlroy + Milroy: Ideology of standardisation
Langauge is an ideology that will adapt with the times, there is no such thing as a standard language
Cameron Verbal Hygiene
Women are socially expected to 'clean' their language to be more appropriate or politically correct
This is reflective of societal views, not inherent differences
Women may be told not to 'talk like a lad' when using expletives
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Julia Stanley 1977
Copied interventions of pejorative labels (220 for women, 20 for men)
Language embodies sexual inequality
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difference
Coates 1988
girls and boys belong to same-sex friend group, so developed different styles of speaking
Genderlect Tannen 1990
Women and men use langauge differently because they have different conversational goals
Women use rapport it 'I feel like' positive pollitness
women use mitigated proposals 'maybe we could' whereas men use imperatives
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dominance
Zimmerman and West (1975)
college campus study found that 96% of interruptions came from men --> Asymmetric interaction
refuted by Beatie
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defecit
Otto Jespersen 1922:
chapter on 'the woman' suggests women use broken syntax as a result of 'no deep thought' going into their 'lively chatter'
Lakoff 1975
Women have been socialised- both linguistically and socially into behaving like 'ladies'
--> described with physical attributes, hedges, fillers, empty adjectives
Men use neutral adjectives, imperatives, declaratives
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case studies
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2012 article Daily Mail 'Don't call me babe'
Women semtnaically don't like food nicknames
Like those with connotations of flowers