Gender

Question 1

What did Lakoff say in her deficit model (1975)?

Answer 1

Women’s language lacked authority compared to men’s, women speak less than men, women use less expletives, women use more intensifiers, use hedges more often, use more tags and euphemisms etc

Question 2

What did Fishman say in her dominance model (1983)?

Answer 2

Men are more dominant in the way they use language- women use tag questions more after declarative clauses in order to maintain conversation with males as they don’t always respond to declaratives. Women carry out the conversational shitwork

Question 3

What did Tannen say in her difference model (1990)?

Answer 3

There are six contrasts in men and women’s language; status vs support, information vs feelings, advice vs understanding, conflict vs compromise, orders vs proposals, independence vs intimacy

Question 4

What did Cameron say in her diversity model (2008)?

Answer 4

“the idea that you can talk about all men or all women is no longer a viable notion”