Gender Theorists Flashcards

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Otto Jesperson (1922)

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Deficit Approach

Women talk more, use half-finished sentences, use ‘and’, use too many adverbs and adjectives and have smaller vocabularies.

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Robin Lakoff (1975)

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Deficit Approach

Women speak less, use listening sounds, use hyper-correct grammar and exaggerated intonation, use more politeness features such as hedges, apologies, tag questions and empty adjectives.

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Zimmerman and West (1975)

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Dominance Approach

Study in University of California showed men used 46 interruptions and women only 2 in 11 conversations.

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Geoffrey Beattie (1982)

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Against Zimmerman and West’s study

Women and men interrupted the same amount.

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Pamela Fishman (1980)

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Dominance Approach

Women use tag questions to gain conversational power.

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Deborah Tannen (1990)

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Difference Approach

Independence vs. intimacy
Status vs. support
Information vs. feelings
Orders vs. proposals 
Advice vs. understanding Conflict vs. compromise
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The University of California

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Both men and women use uptalk, but women use it twice as much.

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Uptalk

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A speech pattern in which phrases and sentences habitually end with a rising sound

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Long Island University

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People judged women using vocal fry as less educated, competent, trustworthy, attractive and hireable than men who used it.

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Geoffrey Leech (1936)

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Marked terms and suffixes are trivialising to women.

Semantic derogation between marked terms ‘master’ and ‘mistress’

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Julia Stanley (1977)

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There are more words that apply only to men, and more positive words. 220 words to describe a promiscuous female, 20 a promiscuous male.

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Koenraad Kuiper (1998)

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Men’s competitive style is a way of achieving solidarity.

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William Labov (1966)

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New York Department Stores: women were more likely to use the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the ‘r’ phoneme in ‘floor’.

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Mary Talbot (1997)

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Synthetic Sisterhood: teenage magazine ‘Jackie’ creates an intimate relationship between the producer and audience, producing an imagined sisterhood.

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Deborah Jones (1990)

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House talk, scandal, bitching, chatting

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16
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Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger

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Community of practise model:
Mutual engagement
Joint negotiated enterprise
Shared enterprise.

We all belong to multiple communities, and our gender may inform which we join.

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Jenny Cheshire

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Girls are more likely to use prestige forms, especially ‘good girls’.

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Sapir-Wharf (1958)

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An individual’s thoughts and actions are determined by the language that individual speaks.

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Muriel Shulz (1975)

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There are more negative words for women because we live in a patriarchal society.

20
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Sara Mills (1995)

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Many of the female terms are marked as indicative of sexual promiscuity.

21
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Janet Homes (1994)

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Animal metaphors for women are pervasive.

22
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Dale Spender (1980)

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Wrote ‘Man Made Language’ highlighting areas of sexism such as the word ‘man’ to mean all humans.

23
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Jane Sutherland (2004) RSCP

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Gender discourses have certain functions: resistant, subversive, conservative or progressive.

They can be competing, dominant, co-existing or alternative.

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Erving Goffman

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“the feminine touch” – use of women’s hands in advertising is dehumanising. Positioning of women in advertising promotes social roles.

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Raewyn Connell (1987)
"hegemonic masculinity"… Language associated with the idolised male group that is seen as having the most status and power in society.
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Kate Bornstein (1998)
Pyramid of Power: hegemonic, subordinate, complicit, marginalised
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Robin Lakoff (1973)
Claims that gay men deliberately "imitate" female speech.