VOCAL FRY Flashcards
1
Q
4 Registers
A
- Fry (lowest register)
- Modal
- Falsetto
- Whistle
2
Q
Statistics
A
=18-25 year old women- link to gender
=2/3 of women in America use vocal fry
=men also use it but women are called out for it
=people over 40 think that females using vocal fry lack authority
3
Q
Vocal Fry
A
- mimic celebrities
- male speech
- sound attractive
- authority
- used in cartoons in ‘judgemental’ girl groups for effect (stereotype)
4
Q
Variationist Approach
A
- socio linguistics
- Labov= New York Department Store (1966)
- Trudgill= Norwich (1972) women are more likely to use ‘correct’ Standard English and use this to gain overt prestige
- Labov= Gender Paradox (2001) women tend to use forms of lang that seem to have more prestige but women also tend to, more than men, use creative, newer forms of lang
- second wave feminism
5
Q
Diversity Approach
A
- the importance of individual differences between men and women
- social network theory= how people in organisations and groups interact with each other
- communities of practise= a group of people who come together for the purpose of a shared activity
- political correctness= challenging the idea that one group of people has the right to decree lang over any other group