Language And Gender Flashcards
Stereotype
An oversimplified representation of a person, group, institutions or event
Hegemony
How one social group can use of language to get other people to accept its way of seeing the world as natural
Ideology
A system of ideas
Linguist relativity
The idea that language we use to talk and write about things can determine the way we think about them
Ideolect
Your own personal way of speaking
Sociolect
The way you speak in a specific group
Social construct
An idea that has been created and accepted by the people in society
Evonomical
Using the minimum amount of time, effort or language that is necessary
Intersectionality
Different kinds of oppression
Gender representations
Refer to the images of men and women are constucted
Lense of context
Exploring representations through a particular context
Deficit Model
Men and women speak differently and women’s speech is perceived as ‘weaker’
Ethnographic Research
The systematic study of groups of people in the moment
Folk linguistics
The opinions and beliefs that non-linguistic hold about language use
International sociologists
Focus on language in its social context
Variational sociologisticts
Study in the way that language changes in communities of speakers and the interaction between social and linguistics factors
Corpara
A large collection of data usually stored electronically
Hypercorrection
Pronunciation and word form overused and used incorrectly
Standard English
A dialect of English considered ‘correct’ and ‘normal’
Gender paradox
The phenomenon that women used more prestigious standard form of English
Interruption
Means of asserting power or perhaps simply showing interest
Dominance theory
Men dominating women in conversation reflecting in society
Conversation ‘shitwork’
Women do the work in conversation
