Chapter 5

Question 1

What do girls games typically emphasize?

Answer 1

Girls games tend to occur in smaller groups without clear cut roles. Talk is used to facilitate the process of interaction and include others. Girls use cooperative communication to create and sustain relationships and include others, learn not to criticize, and be sensitive to others.

Question 2

Masculine Speech Communities

Answer 2

Accomplish goals, exert control, preserve independence, entertain, and enhance status.
Establish conversational command and tend to talk more frequently for longer periods of time and interrupt more often.

Question 3

Feminine Speech Communities

Answer 3

Creating and maintaining relationships. Talk is the center of relationships.
Equalize status through matching of experiences.
Used to support others.

Question 4

What is spotlighting?

Answer 4

Calls attention to the sex of a person, which obscures from other information. (Woman Mayor, male nurse)

Question 5

What is polarized thinking?

Answer 5

Perceptions of genders as absolute opposites

Question 6

What is a tag question?

Answer 6

Question after a statement (Isn’t it? Doesn’t It?)

Question 7

What is male generic language?

Answer 7

Claims to include both sexes, yet research shows people associate males only with generic terms more than females. (mailman, chairman)