theorists Flashcards
Deborah Cameron
gender interaction
challenges difference and deficit models
Jennifer Coates
gender
oral culture
house talk
David Crystal
descriptivist / very influential contemporary linguist
Fairclough
UCAS
instrumental / influential power
synthetic personalisation
Howard Giles
UCAS
accommodation theory
> convergence
> divergence
Goffman
UCAS
linguistic interaction
> face
Grice
(Grice’s maxims)
conversation theory
> ‘cooperative theory’
conversational maxims
Halliday
ideational metafunction
> representative
functions of language
> child develop language because it serves
specific purpose / functions for them
Janet Holms
UCAS
occupational dialect
> small talk
> compliments
linguistic behaviour
Lakoff
UCAS
dominance / deficit model (gender)
Geoffrey leech
pragmatics
politeness
stylistics
grammar
O’Barr + Atkins
social status
> contextual
> gender
> ‘powerless language’
Deborah Tannen
UCAS
difference model of gender language
identifies a range of differences between male and female speech
- focuses on concepts of status VS support
Trudgill
UCAS
reaserch into language, class and gender
> saw womens speech as more socially aspirational
dialect leveling
Wareing
UCAS
types of power
> language
> society
> gender
