Gender

Question 1

fishman

Answer 1

women are left to do conversational shitwork if not it would fail

Question 2

atkins

Answer 2

men use deficit language in court, shows it is not about gender, but lack of power

Question 3

coates

Answer 3

male conversations - competitive
female conversations - co-operative

Question 4

difference model

Answer 4

men and women communicate differently, not better / worse

Question 5

coates

Answer 5

men control the topic of conversation and keep it to male orientated subjects

Question 6

lakoff (terminology)

Answer 6

terms are marked (marked terms) to female equivalent (hostess, waitress)

Question 7

lakoff (deficit)

Answer 7

• intensifiers (‘very’)
• hedging (‘sort of’)
• weak adjectives (‘nice’)
• back channelling (mhm)

Question 8

hyde

Answer 8

there are more similarities between the genders than there is difference

Question 9

holmes

Answer 9

women referred to as food and animals

Question 10

howe

Answer 10

men are active participants, keen to respond and provide their opinion
women are active listeners, respond though backchanneling

Question 12

deficit model

Answer 12

women’s language is weaker

Question 13

zimmerman

Answer 13

men interrupt women 96% of the time in mixed sex conversations

Question 14

tannen (vs)

Answer 14

advice vs understanding
conflict vs compromise
independence vs intimacy
information vs feelings
orders vs proposals
status vs support

Question 15

tannen (orientation)

Answer 15

male talk is report orientated
female talk is rapport orientated

Question 16

beattie

Answer 16

zimmermans study used a too little sample, repeated with more ppts and found men and women interrupt equally

Question 17

stanley

Answer 17

220 negative terms to describe a promiscuous woman, but only 20 for an equivalent man