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What is the Dominance model?

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The idea that men’s use of language dominates the weaker female sex due to their higher position in society

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What did Robin Lakoff study?

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the idea of there being a ‘woman’s language’

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What was Lakoffs book called?

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Language and woman’s place (1975)

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What analysis did Lakoff make about women’s words?

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Use more empty adjectives, intensifiers and weak expletives e.g oh dear

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What did Lakoff analyse about women’s grammar?

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They use tag questions, hedges and hypercorrect grammar

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What did Lakoff analyse about women’s phonology?

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A rising intonation and an exaggerated intonation

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What did Lakoff analyse about women’s politeness?

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They apologise more, use euphemisms and polite forms

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Evaluation of Lakoff?

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  • stereotypes the genders
  • no research just observation
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What did Zimmerman and West evaluate?

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The idea that men interrupt more due to their domination

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How did Beattie oppose Z+W?

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you might simply have one very voluble man in the study which has a disproportionate effect on the total

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Zimmerman and wests study:

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California in 1975
31 segments of conversations
11 conversations (46 male interruptions, 2 male interruptions)

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Issues of zimmerman and wests study:

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small study
all white middle class subjects
sees interruptions as a negative

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What was Dale spenders study?

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Dominance Model

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What did Spender gather from the dominance model?

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She gathered that you can’t get rid of the male patriarchy with language as language is also male dominated

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What was Pamela Fishmans book called?

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‘interactions: the work women do’ (1983)

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What did Fishman gather?

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Women are interactional (use more questions and start conversations) whereas men are transactional

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What did O’barr and Atkins investigate?

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The idea that language is situation dependent - courtroom cases

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How did O’barr and Atkins investigate situation?

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studied courtroom cases for 30 months and used Lakoffs study of women’s language

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What did O’barr and Atkins find?

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In a courtroom, the witnesses used language which they wouldn’t usually use to appeal to the judge

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What was Deborah Tannens model called?

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The difference model

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What does tannens difference model observe?

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Difference is language is due to gender difference (social construct)

22
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Tannen said men are… and women are…

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men are transactional, women are interactional

23
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How many contrasts did Tannen observe?

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Six

24
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Name the six contrasts of the difference model (male is always first)

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Status vs support
Independence vs intimacy
advice vs understanding
information vs feelings
orders vs proposals
conflict vs compromise

25
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what are the R’s about men and women?

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Men report and Women rapport

26
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What was Cameron’s theory?

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Diversity Theory

27
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What did Cameron famously say?

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there are more differences within genders than between them

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What was cameron’s book?

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The myth of mars and venus

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What did Judith Butler observe?

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the idea that gender is a performance (gender performativity) and what you portray is a choice

30
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what did butler say about expressions and gender?

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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender

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What did penelope eckert say?

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There are other factors to language and you can’t specify them

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Who did Eckert say people are more likely to talk like?

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Their friends

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How did Eckert observe the factors?

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Observed friendship groups in a school in detroit

34
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Who were the dominance theorists?

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Lakoff
O’barr and Atkins
Zimmerman and West
Fishman
Spender

35
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Who was the Difference Theorist?

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Tannen

36
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Who were the diversity theorists?

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Butler
Eckert
Cameron