JAL355H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: George Lakoff, Tag Question, Sociolinguistics
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Gender is treated as an ongoing project and language as a resource in the pursuit of that project: according to eckert and mcconnell-ginet. Our beliefs about gender can define our sex. There are two types of difference between language and gender: gender-exclusive differences. Ex: language use between men and women: gender-preferential differences. Ex: statistical distinction in the tate of use of language by men and women. Robin lakoff"s language and women"s place is recognized as the first d menait perspective on language and gender. Some claims state that: there is a "women"s language": how women talk and how they"re talked about. Ex: hedges, intensifiers, tag questions, etc: women"s language is powerless and trivial. Thus, language works as a tool of oppression as speech is learned and imposed on by societal norms. There are four approaches to language and gender: deficit paradigm. Male as norm, women"s language use deviates from the real thing.
