LINB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Deborah Tannen, Third-Person Pronoun, George Lakoff
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Speaker"s agency the ability of a speaker to make language choices, depending on whom they talk to (these choices can either be conscious or unconscious) Sex: what you are and what you have (biological) Gender: what you do, the things you do in society forms your gender. The way women speech shows their status in society"s power structure. The way they talk about women shows the status of women in society. Sort of , i"m not an expert on that, but . Women may use this incase there are any disagreements. I got home at 8 p. m. i got home around 8 pm. Well , you know , actually , i mean , um , uh , you know . Filers are meaningless, they don"t mean anything in that context. More like a pause, usually when the person is thinking. When women know the answer but what your approval.
