Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Language and gender

Dominate a conversation by topic initiation, topic shifts, holding the floor, lack of turn-yielding clues, interrupting and generally speaking more.More submissive in a conversation and likely to speak less. Unlikely to interrupt, initiate or change topics or attempt to hold the floor.
Use a more informal register through their use of accent, taboo, slang, dialectsociolect and grammatical variations.
Likely to use covert prestige to sustain a masculine identity.
More likely to use overt prestige to help create a feminine identity and succumb to stereotypes on how a ‘lady-like’ woman should talk (more formal lexis and less phonological variations).
More likely to be factual, competitive, direct and detached when speaking while maintaining a need for status.More likely to be supportive, cooperative, polite, apologetic and emotional when speaking.

No comments:

Post a Comment