Gender Theories Flashcards

(35 cards)

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Cameron

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All theories are biased

There’s not as many differences as the theories say

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Coates

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Women’s talk 4 categories bitching chatting scandal and house talk

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Lakoff

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Women come across as inferior

Use more hedges fillers tag qs indirect requests speak less fewer expletives and fewer intensifiers

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O’Barr and Atkins (contradicting Lakoff)

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Social status decides this not gender

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Cheshire

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Men use more non-grammatical forms

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Trugill

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Women’s pronunciation closer to received pronunciation

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Zimmerman and West

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96% of interruptions made by men, suggesting male dominance

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Beattie (disagrees with Zimmerman and west)

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Not a sign of dominance but of understanding and support

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Tanner

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Women talk to create bonds
Talk less, agree more, offer support not solutions
Men more concerned with status
Interrupt, conflict, intensifiers

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Fairclough

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Synthetic personalization 
Members' resources 
Building the consumer 
Influential/Instrumental
Power in/behind discourse
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Accommodation theory

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Changing language to fit situation

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Brown and levinson

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Negative positive politeness

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Wareing

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Political
Personal
Social group

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Modality

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Epistemic

Deontic

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Holmes and Stubbe

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Doing power

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Winnick

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Humour to criticize authority

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Bernstein

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Imperatives used when hierarchy is stable

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Morreall

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Humour- good relationship

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Overt/covert prestige

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Sounding more or less posh

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Formulation

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Repeating and rewording someone else’s answer

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Grices maxims

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Quality quantity relation manner

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Mode of address

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Mr

Miss mrs ms

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Generic terms

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Male word apply to all eg mankind

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Diminutive suffixes

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Semantic derogation
Pairs of terms which aren't equal
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Marked terms
Specifying gender because of assumptions
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Semantic fields
Terms for women often derive from food clothing or animals
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Androcentric
Gynocentric
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Conflict vs compromise Advice vs understanding Independence vs intimacy
Status vs support Orders vs proposals Information vs feelings
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Stereotyping
Representation
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Small talk phatic language
Transactional lang
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Rhetoric
Giving deference
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Interaction
Representation
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Marked/unmarked terms
Covert/overt marking
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Modification
Socialization process