Gender

Question 1

Discourse

Answer 1

specific term that relates to representing facets of the world–processes, relations, structures of the world and thoughts, feeling and beliefs about the social world

Question 2

heteronormative discourse

Answer 2

requires the assumption of heterosexuality and stigmatizes other sexualities

Question 3

example of heteronormative discourse

Answer 3

straight acting

Question 4

deficit model

Answer 4

women’s ways of speaking were ‘deficient’ compared to men

Question 5

examples of deficit model

Answer 5

women less confident, use hedges and questions, less able to participate in discussion of serious activities in the social sphere

Question 6

dominance model

Answer 6

in cross-gender conversations, women ask more questions than men, use more back-channeling signals (verbal and nonverbal feedback to suggest they are listening), encourage others to continue speaking, use more instances of ‘we’ and ‘you’ and do not protest as much as men when they are interrupted

Question 7

difference model

Answer 7

men and women speak differently because they are shaped to do so by different life experiences that life subjects them to.

Question 8

intersectional

Answer 8

Gender identity is thus not separate from these other identities