VOCAL FRY

Question 1

4 Registers

Answer 1

• Fry (lowest register)
• Modal
• Falsetto
• Whistle

Question 2

Statistics

Answer 2

=18-25 year old women- link to gender
=2/3 of women in America use vocal fry
=men also use it but women are called out for it
=people over 40 think that females using vocal fry lack authority

Question 3

Vocal Fry

Answer 3

• mimic celebrities
• male speech
• sound attractive
• authority
• used in cartoons in ‘judgemental’ girl groups for effect (stereotype)

Question 4

Variationist Approach

Answer 4

• socio linguistics
• Labov= New York Department Store (1966)
• Trudgill= Norwich (1972) women are more likely to use ‘correct’ Standard English and use this to gain overt prestige
• Labov= Gender Paradox (2001) women tend to use forms of lang that seem to have more prestige but women also tend to, more than men, use creative, newer forms of lang
• second wave feminism

Question 5

Diversity Approach

Answer 5

• the importance of individual differences between men and women
• social network theory= how people in organisations and groups interact with each other
• communities of practise= a group of people who come together for the purpose of a shared activity
• political correctness= challenging the idea that one group of people has the right to decree lang over any other group