Gender 👫

Question 1

Lakoff

Answer 1

Deficit model

(Jesperson)

Women:
Hedging
Empty adj
Hyper-correct grammar
Avoid taboo
Use of tone

Question 2

Fishman

Answer 2

Conversational shitwork

Tag questions to gain conversational power
Men unlikely to use

Question 3

Tannen

Answer 3

Difference model

Status v support
Information v feeling
Independence v intimacy
Orders v proposals

Question 4

Cameron

Answer 4

Challenges difference and dominance model

Speakers construct their own gendered identities which either conform/deviate from social stereotypes