week 2

Question 1

enregisterment

Answer 1

how we come to recognize a variety/style as a “thing”

Question 2

stylistic bricolage

Answer 2

• combining stylistic resources to create something
• ie. style, makeup, colors

Question 3

lakoff contributions to the study of language and gender?

Answer 3

• gender is encoded even in languages that don’t make it apparent grammatically
• hedging and hyperpoliteness: uncertainty and lack of authority (ie. “sort of,” “if it’s not too much to ask”
• tag questions: “i’m gonna do this, ‘okay?’”
• question intonation (uptalk)

Question 4

what were some limitations of lakoff’s work?

Answer 4

not accounting for class, race, sexual orientation, cis/trans people?

Question 5

gaudio study “sounding gay”

Answer 5

• showed us that gender and sexuality is heavily based on perceptions
• gay men have their own reasons to speak a certain way, don’t want to “mock women” as it is not conscious
• this perception also avoids seeing diverse gender expression
• limitations: lesbian(gay) women? heavy western ideologies?