Gender Flashcards
Who did the Deference Model?
Robin Lakoff
Name at least 3 ways women defer by in the Deference Model.
- Hedges
- Super politeness
- Hyper correctness
- Tag Questions
- Speaking in “italics”
- Empty adjectives
- Use of implication
- Special lexicon
- Question intonation
- No sense of humour
What is a flaw of the Deference Model?
It was not based on empirical research
Who criticised Lakoff’s Deference Model?
Dubois and Crouch
What did Dubois and Crouch find in their study?
Men use more tags than women and tags do not always show deference
What does the Dominance Model say?
Men behave in ways that actively seek to dominate women and take status from them while increasing mens
Who studied turn taking?
Zimmerman and West
What did Zimmerman and West find in their Turn Taking Study?
- Men interrupt women 23 times more than women interrupt men
- Same-sex conversations have three times more overlaps than interruptions
- Mixed-sex conversations have five times more interruptions than overlaps
Who criticised Zimmerman and West’s Turn Taking Study?
Beattie, Eakens and Eakens
What did Beattie say in his criticism of Zimmerman and West’s Turn Taking Study?
- They had a very small data sample, one person could throw the results
- Interruptions don’t always reflect dominance. They can show interest.
What did Eakens and Eakens say in their criticism of Zimmerman and West’s Turn Taking Study?
- Status as well as gender determines whether someone would get interrupted
- People of a higher status aren’t interrupted as much
Who studied delayed minimal responses?
Zimmerman and West
What did Zimmerman and West find in their Delayed Minimal Responses Study?
Men used delayed minimal responses and withhold supportive minimal responses in order to silence women
Who studied tag Questions?
Pamela Fishman and Janet Holmes
What did Pamela Fishman find in her Tag Questions Study?
- Women use “y’know” five times more than men.
- Men don’t support women by providing appropriate minimal responses
- Women have to tag to ask for this support
- Men do this to silence women
What did Janet Holmes find in her study into Tag Questions?
- Men and Women use the same number of tag questions
- Men use speaker-oriented tags
- Women use addressee-oriented tags
- Men are less supportive speakers than women
What is a speaker-oriented tag?
a tag to benefit the speaker
What is an addressee-oriented tag?
a tag to benefit the interlocutor
Who studied Conversational Shitwork?
Victoria DeFrancisco
What did Victoria DeFrancisco find in her Conversational Shitwork study?
Women work harder to keep conversation going.
How do women work harder to keep conversations going according to Victoria DeFrancisco?
They:
1. introduce more topics
2. talk more than men
3. work harder at keeping the conversation going
Who studied gender and expertise?
Helena Leet-Pelligrini
What was the hierarchy of gender and expertise and gender according to Helena Leet-Pelligrini?
- Male Experts
- Female Experts and Male Non-Experts
- Female Non-Experts
Who added to the Difference Model?
Deborah Tannen and Deborah Jones
What did Deborah Tanned claim talk between women and men is?
Cross-cultural communication