Vocabulary and genders sociolinguistic

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.