AO1 Terms for gender and sexuality

Question 1

What is phallocentric language?

Answer 1

Language sees men as provelidged

Question 2

What is synthetic personalisation?

Answer 2

Companies/brands make you believe you have rapports

Question 3

What are fillers?

Answer 3

Fills an awkward silence eg like/so to create thinking time

Question 4

What are hedges?

Answer 4

Suggests an element of hesitancy “ so you not think”

Question 5

What are adjacency pairs?

Answer 5

A question and an answer

Question 6

What are overlaps?

Answer 6

Talking over someone breaks politeness principle

Question 7

What are topic markers shifts and loops?

Answer 7

Topic is set by speaker, topic is moved to save face, going back to topic

Question 8

What is jargon?

Answer 8

Complex language relating to a specific field. Can result in individuals losing positive face

Question 9

What is positive face?

Answer 9

We all want to feel valued and the need to feel positive about yourself

Question 10

What are tag questions ?

Answer 10

Attach a question to a statement and keep conversation going and maintain politeness

Question 11

What is context?

Answer 11

The surrounding social issues of the day

Question 12

What is taboo language?

Answer 12

Banned words

Question 13

What is a closed language community ?

Answer 13

The idea of shared language and knowledge

Question 14

What an idiolect?

Answer 14

System of beliefs and own language

Question 15

What is a socialect?

Answer 15

Shared group language

Question 16

What does adhere to mean?

Answer 16

You follow the rules or expectations

Question 17

What does subvert mean ?

Answer 17

Go against the normal or expectations

Question 18

What is accent?

Answer 18

The manner of pronunciation and sound patterning

Question 19

What is dialect?

Answer 19

The specific northern words you use

Question 20

What is accent levelling?

Answer 20

Neutralise our accent and dialect

Question 21

What is prestige?

Answer 21

Power

Question 22

What are pragmatic?

Answer 22

Implied meaning

Question 23

What are rapports?

Answer 23

Relationships

Question 24

What is communicative competency?

Answer 24

To know and follow the rules of conversation

Question 25

What is inherent ideology?

Answer 25

Something passed through generations

Question 26

What is semantic non equivalence?

Answer 26

Implies gap between men and women

Question 27

What is phatic talk?

Answer 27

Small talk

Question 28

What is convergence?

Answer 28

Howard Giles accommodation theory- we change our language to fit in and build rapports - move our language closer to people

Question 29

What is divergence?

Answer 29

Moving in our language in context further away

Question 30

What is covert prestige?

Answer 30

We use and adapt our language in a smaller group to sustain rapports

Question 31

What does overt prestige mean?

Answer 31

We use and adapt language to a larger group to sustain positive face

Question 32

What is diminutive?

Answer 32

Degrading

Question 33

What is referential talk?

Answer 33

Usually gets answers

Question 34

What is declarative talk?

Answer 34

Sentences used to convey information or statements

Question 35

What is blending ?

Answer 35

Mixing words to create new ones

Question 36

What is mansolaining ?

Answer 36

Men correcting women online

Question 37

What is derrogative ?

Answer 37

Offensive

Question 38

What is repertoire?

Answer 38

How broad your language is across different context. The vocabulary we use because of our life experience

Question 39

What is a marked form?

Answer 39

Denoted gender and connoted gendered term

Question 40

What is unmarked form?

Answer 40

A gender neutral term linked to Montgomery

Question 41

What is back channelling?

Answer 41

Supportive noises