COMM 1025 Lecture Notes - Deborah Tannen, Binary Opposition, Symbolic Interactionism
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Gender and language use: gender conceived as binary terms leads researchers to look for differences between males and females, biological sex vs. gender as social construct, learned: a. b. Gender differences as a result of patriarchy/male dominance. Gender differences seen as a cultural matter due to differences in socialization: shift is away from theory based on dominance to theory based on. Gender as performance, existing only within practice. Understand rules of natural discourse by examining details of many interactions. Rules: turn-taking, silence/gaps, overlaps, rule violations and repair. Make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged. So, grice is dealing here with what he calls implicature, or more specifically conversational implicature. In order to understand what implicature is, we can contrast it with what it is not. Consider the sentence in (1): (1) i"m a doctor.
