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lesson 28.language and gender: the difference between female speech and male speech and their peculiarities handout 1. gender language differences sociolinguistics is a field of study that reviews how language varies within social groups and strata. here are some of the key findings about how men and women use language differently. men's language crawford (1997) notes the three main objectives of male speech as: · to assert one's position of dominance. · to attract and maintain an audience. · to assert one's self when another person has the floor. mulac (2001) notes that men tend to use language that reflects a more dominant and certain position. they identify: greater usage of example quantitative references it is 25 miles away. judgmental adjectives his performance is poor. commands turn that off now. location words take it off the table put in in the cupboard. brief sentences looks great! now what? self-references i'm …

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ks a bit angry yet still reasonably calm. questioning do you think this looks good? poynton (1989) noted that women: · are generally more polite in their speech (though are no different in sincerity). · use politeness markers such as 'please' and thank you'. · use super-polite 'multiple modalities' such as "i was wondering if you could possibly just do me a small favour, if you wouldn't mind". · tend to use tag questions. · use more intensifiers. · use more adjectives. · use euphemisms rather than swearin these are ten elements of the language that women use, as identified by robin lakoff in 1975. of course, not all women use all of this language all of the time, and some may question the whole. 1. hedging hedging provides a way out, should disagreement occur, qualifying statements with non-absolute language, such as 'sort of', 'i guess', etc. well, i sort …

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lack of humor humor is not used very much and jokes are very seldom told. 8. direct quotations the words that people said are often quoted, even quoting people who quote other people. then she said that he said, "i won't do it." so i said, "why not?" 9. extended vocabulary rather than simple language, vocabulary is extended to use descriptive language. thus, for example a precise language is used to describe colors. the walls should be cerise, with a royal blue tracer. 10. declarations with interrogative intonation statements are made, but using the intonation used for questions, rising at the end of the statement. that sounds like a good thing to do? handout 2. frame of male and female. main activities 1. sticks and stones ask the students to start thinking about how language is used once we grow up and go to primary and secondary school. they are …

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three or four students. ask the students to make three or four statements about what is suggested to them by their word. here is an example (you could have this on a pre-prepared powerpoint slide): gossip 1) gossip is about things or people in a limited sphere (such as local gossip, school gossip, celebrity gossip) 2) gossip is not about important matters 3) gossip might not even be true 4) gossip might be mean or nasty allow about ten minutes for this activity, before moving on to the summary. question excerpt 1. what are weak expletives, who uses them and why? 2. who is more likely to use language to bond, encourage and balance power? a. men b. women c. children 3. three women and three men are chatting. who is likely to talk more? a. the women b. the men c. they are likely to talk about the same …

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lesson 28.language and gender: the difference between female speech and male speech and their peculiarities handout 1. gender language differences sociolinguistics is a field of study that reviews how language varies within social groups and strata. here are some of the key findings about how men and women use language differently. men's language crawford (1997) notes the three main objectives of male speech as: · to assert one's position of dominance. · to attract and maintain an audience. · to assert one's self when another person has the floor. mulac (2001) notes that men tend to use language that reflects a more dominant and certain position. they identify: greater usage of example quantitative references it is 25 miles away. judgmental …

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