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Gender Theory/Mars and Venus Flashcards

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Who wrote Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and when (decade)?

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John Gray in 1990s

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Otto Jespersen wrote what book and when?

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The Woman in the 1920s

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Otto Jespersen claimed that:

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  • women are overly emotional
  • women use smaller vocabularies
  • women use more conjunctions (and), unlike men who use subordinate clauses
  • women use fewer abstract terms
  • women are less coarse in language
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‘kros’

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angry - used by women as a monologue who publicly complains about another’s behaviour using abusive terms

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‘hed’

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wilful + headstrong - meant for women - uncooperative

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‘save’

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knowledge, judgement + good sense - supressed by men to avoid provoking conflict

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Significance of Don Kulick’s study

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contrasts to universal studies in western language

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Don Kulick’s study was in… (place and decade)

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Gapun, Papa New Guinea 1990s

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Define meta-analysis and who used it

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  • collating more data samples and studies instead of using only one or two studies to create a generalisation and universal data
  • Janet Hyde
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Janet Hyde’s research article name is…

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The Gender Similarities Hypothesis

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What was Janet Hyde’s conclusion?

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78% of the gender differences were small or close to zero

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Which two other linguists agree with Janet Hyde and came to similar conclusions as her?

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Chambers and Liberman

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What criticism does Deborah Cameron make before releasing data especially in the pre-1990s?

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  • taking things out of context such as: age, occupation, social class
  • subjects were dominantly white, middle class + well-educated men
  • not including other cultures
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The name of Robin Lakoff’s book:

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Language and Woman’s Place

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What does Lakoff focus on?

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tag questions

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What 2 reasons does Lakoff give as to why women use a higher frequency of tag questions?

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  • for confirmation - used by men too

- to seek approval - used mostly by women

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Which two other linguists challenged Lakoff?

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Holmes and O’Leary

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What conclusion did Holmes arrive to?

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tag questions served a facilitative purpose - inviting more people into the conversation

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What conclusion did O’Leary arrive to?

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gender isn’t the only factor when it comes to using tag questions - occupation is more significant through his study where teachers and doctors (people of power and a higher status in terms of occupation) used tag questions more frequently

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Pamela Fishman study name is…

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Interactional Shitwork

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Fishman’s study concluded that women use a much higher frequency of?

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all questions as men do not see it as their responsibility to initiate conversations

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Goodwin’s study name and when:

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The Secret Life of Girls in 2006

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The Secret Life of Girls focus group was..

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a socially and ethnically mixed group in LA

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Goodwin’s findings/conclusion:

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  • girls challenged each other directly
  • argued over rules of games such as hopscotch
  • boasted about their athletic skills, possessions and family status
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Deborah Tannen’s approach with which linguist who coined..

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cross-cultural approach with Gumperz who coined ‘cross-talk’

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Define cross-cultural approach

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male and female groups likened to different cultures

27
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Robin Dunbar’s study and focus:

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Exchanging social information on gossip

28
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3 linguists related to minimal responses

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Maltz and Borker

Helen Reid Thomas

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Maltz and Borker studied… and said that…

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  • minimal responses as having different meanings for each gender
  • women = listening
  • men = agreeing
30
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Helen Reid Thomas studied… to oppose… and…

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  • minimal responses

- Maltz and Borker

31
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What did Helen Reid Thomas do that… and… didn’t do?

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  • carried out systematic tests

- unlike Maltz and Borker

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Helen Reid Thomas’ conclusion

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there was no difference in the interpretation of each gender instead it is the context which tells people how to interpret minimal responses

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What did Gumperz do?

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he coined ‘cross-talk’

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Gumperz study

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  • Heathrow ‘gravy’ incident
  • a group of Indian and Pakistani women working as cafeteria employees VS British baggage handlers
  • British complained that the women were rude
  • Asians have a falling intonation when asking if the workers wanted ‘gravy’
  • Western have a rising intonation
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The link between the ‘difference theory’ and Gumperz’ study

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Tannen represents male and female genders as being two separate cultures

36
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Deborah Tannen’s book

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You just don’t understand

37
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Deborah Tannen’s theory

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Difference theory

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Difference theory is by

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Deborah Tannen

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6 categories in the ‘difference theory’

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  1. status v support
  2. information v feelings
  3. orders v proposals
  4. conflict v compromise
  5. independence v intimacy
  6. advice v understanding
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monologue in Gapun

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kros

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women’s characterstic in Gapun

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hed

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men’s characteristic in Gapun

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save

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status v support

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men = conversations are used to build status

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advice v understanding

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  • women = seek comfort and sympathy

- men = seek solutions to problems

45
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information v feelings

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  • women = convo important to build relationships and strengthening social skills
  • men = convo is message-orientated
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orders v proposals

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  • women = use of super-polite forms (would you mind if…?)

- men use direct imperatives (close the door)

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conflict v compromise

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  • women = avoid conflict in language w out any direct confrontation to maintain positive connections and rapport
  • men = use confrontation to resolve differences and thereby negotiating status
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independence v intimacy

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  • women = view the world as a network of connections and relationships, avoiding the appearance of superiority
  • men = focuses on status and independence
49
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John Gray wrote what and when

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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus in 1990s

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Deborah Cameron wrote what and when

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The Myth of Mars and Venus in 1990s

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