Dominance gender school

Question 1

Schulz and Lakoff

Answer 1

Dominance

• ess suffix
• semantic derogation, words have negative connotations as time has passed, mistress (female equivalent of master) has connotations to prostitution.

Question 2

Stanley

Answer 2

• Stanley’s research from the 1970 examined the number of insults for women against men
• 220 insults to describe a promiscuous female whilst only 20 for a promiscuous male

Question 3

Tyger Drew-Honey

Answer 3

• asked people in the streets how they would describe a woman who had slept with 30 men and how they would describe a man who had slept with 30 women.
• across genders the woman was referred to as a “slag” or “slut” whilst the man was named a “lad”

Question 4

Janet Holmes

Answer 4

• research looked into those the way in which woman are referred to in affectionate nominatives
• nominates for women typically in semantic field of food or animals.

Question 5

Dale Spender

Answer 5

• culture with ‘man as norm’ in which men are dominant and women are add-ons.
• men mostly introduced first Mr and Mrs, when women rarely are introduced first it is for lesser roles; mother and father

Question 6

Zimmerman and West

Answer 6

1975
studied conversations and found men interrupted 96% to 100% more of the time.
all white middle class under 35

Question 7

Beattie

Answer 7

Researched ten times the corpus and found that there was pretty much an equal amount of interruptions.