Transcript
VOCABULARY AND GENDERS
TALKING AND INTERRUPTING• Is it true that women talk more than men?
• Women facilitate in conversations and so elicit speech from men.(Thompsom, Murrachver and Green 2001)
WHY DO WOMEN HAVE SUCH A STYLE?• Because they have been socialized not to speak
themselves, but to encourage men to speak.
• Do women wish to be more facilitators of male verbal displays?
• Do women wish not to have their ideas presented?
• Are they forced into such a role by social conditioning, sexist social conditioning?
VOCABULARY AND GENDERAccording to Pamela Fishman(1978) According to Nowell (1989)
• Female ASL speakers produce more verbiage than male in informal conversation, but males produce more than females in interview situations.
• Factors involve in the interaction between sexes
And determine who speaks the most.
• Business setting
• Academia
• Formal committees
• Topic.
• Women raised as many as 62% of topics in ordinary household conversation with their husband.
• 28 out of 29 topics raised by the husband.
• Fishman believes women raise so many topics in an effort to increase their chance of success, because so much of what they say is ignored by men.
Interrupting as Dominance
• Another major reason that men have been found to talk more in mixed - gender interaction is that they feel free to interrupt women, but not vice versa (Zimmerman and West1975)
• Using a model of interaction
• Turn – taking
• To avoid overlaps
• WHAT IS AN INTERRUPTION?• It is a vocalization before the last word that could
signal the end of a sentence.
INTERRUPTION CAN BE COUNTED IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
Gender and persuasiveness Female • Women are more tentative, but only when
speaking with men.• Women are less impressed by another
woman who speaks tentatively.(Carli 1990)
Male • Is equally effective with both sexes whether
or not their speech is tentative. (Carli 1990)
LANGUAGE AS MIRROR
INDICATE• WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO SPEAKERS?• REFLECTS THE ATTITUDES OF CULTURE.• - TABOO• - VALUED• POSITION THAT PEOPLE HAVE IN THEIR
SOCIETIES.
EXAMINATION OF A VOCABULARY CAN REVEAL A GOOD DEAL ABOUT A CULTURE.
THE LEXICON OF A LANGUAGE IS A MIRROR OF ITS SPEAKERS’ ATTITUDES AND IDEAS.
top related