Language And Gender Flashcards
Stereotype
An oversimplified representation of a person, group, institutions or event
Hegemony
How one social group can use of language to get other people to accept its way of seeing the world as natural
Ideology
A system of ideas
Linguist relativity
The idea that language we use to talk and write about things can determine the way we think about them
Ideolect
Your own personal way of speaking
Sociolect
The way you speak in a specific group
Social construct
An idea that has been created and accepted by the people in society
Evonomical
Using the minimum amount of time, effort or language that is necessary
Intersectionality
Different kinds of oppression
Gender representations
Refer to the images of men and women are constucted
Lense of context
Exploring representations through a particular context
Deficit Model
Men and women speak differently and women’s speech is perceived as ‘weaker’
Ethnographic Research
The systematic study of groups of people in the moment
Folk linguistics
The opinions and beliefs that non-linguistic hold about language use
International sociologists
Focus on language in its social context
Variational sociologisticts
Study in the way that language changes in communities of speakers and the interaction between social and linguistics factors
Corpara
A large collection of data usually stored electronically
Hypercorrection
Pronunciation and word form overused and used incorrectly
Standard English
A dialect of English considered ‘correct’ and ‘normal’
Gender paradox
The phenomenon that women used more prestigious standard form of English
Interruption
Means of asserting power or perhaps simply showing interest
Dominance theory
Men dominating women in conversation reflecting in society
Conversation ‘shitwork’
Women do the work in conversation
Tennen’s six contrasts
Status vs support
Independence vs intimacy
Advise vs understanding
Information vs feelings
Orders vs proposals
Conflict vs compromise
Genderlect
The particular language used by men and women according to their gender
Report talk
More factual (considered to be men)
Reppart talk
More emotional feeling (women)
Cooperative overlap
An interruption that aids in conversation
Competive overlap
Interruption to mainstream status
High-involvement
Enthusiastic support
High-consideration
Considerate of others
Difference theory
Men and women speak differently along competitive vs co-operative ideas
Housetalk
Its distinguishing function exchanges of information
Scandal
Judging behaviour of others
Bitching
Overt expression of women’s anger at their restricted role * inferior status
Chatting
The most intimate form of gossip, a mutual self-disclosure
Diversity approach
The importance of individual difference between men and women
Social network theory
Study of how people in organisations and groups interact with each other
Communities of practice (CoP)
A group of people who come together for the purpose of shared activity
Mutual engagement
Members of a community of practice come together in a common negotiated activity
Joint negotiated enterprise
Communities of practice share common goals and work together to achieve them
Shared repertoire
CoP share the same resources to communicate with each other and may have particular ways of doing or speaking
Political correctness
Refers to the belief that language should not be used in a discriminative way
Performatives
Speech acts that explicitly perform an act
Perfomativity
The ability to use speech and other communicative methods to construct or perform and identify
Gendered phrases
Phrases that related to a specific gender
Collocation
A word or phrase that is usually combined togther with a greater frequency than a chance
Male firstness
Males come first in language
Unmarked term
The regular or usual form of the term
