Gender theorists for men

Question 1

Koenraad and Kuiper

Answer 1

• Men are more likely to pay less attention to save face and instead use insults as a way of expressing solidarity

Question 2

Jane Pilkington

Answer 2

• Men are less complimentary and supportive in all male talk

Question 3

Zimmerman and West

Answer 3

• 96% interruption are made by men
• Women have linguistic freedom
• Men sought to oppose their dominant status
• Male- female interactions are similar to parent- child interactions

Question 4

Jenny Cheshire

Answer 4

• Supports Trudgill
• Analysed speech of teens in Reading; nearly all cases boys used more non- standard forms than girls

Question 5

Jesperson

Answer 5

• Deficit Model
• Believed men were more skilled verbally
• Women spoke before thinking
• Men were slower readers as they were soaking up the information properly
• However, less scientific evidence so findings deemed as ‘folk linguistics’

Question 6

O’Barr and Atkins

Answer 6

• data from various courtrooms
• lower- class men used linguistic features of those similar to female speech
• social class key variable