LING 2P72 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vocal Folds, Sociolinguistics, Machismo

• School: Brock University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 2P72
• Professor: Tom Farrell

Document Summary

Different vocabulary: women use more professional, men use more vernacular. Different pronunciation: men use a laxer form of speech. Gender-exclusive speech: forms used only by women or men. Gender-preferential speech: forms used more frequently and quantitatively by women over men or men over women. Hedging devices: linguistic devices used for hedging or reducing force of an utterance. Boosting devices: features which may boost or intensify a proposition"s force intensifiers. Sexist language: way culture or society conveys values from one group to another and from one generation to next. Particular vernacular forms and vocabulary used only by men or women. Differences built into language: yana (american indian language): men use longer words than women, japanese women and men different vocabular referring to same things. Men use more vernacular forms not admired overtly by society. Women use more standard forms: social class/status, women"s role in society, women"s status as subordinate group, function of speech expressing masculinity, social status.