The Idea Of Women And Men Use Language Differently

In the reading “You Are What You Say” by Robin Tolmach Lakoff. She talks about how women use a particular way of conveying a language. How women have to speak in a certain way or to speak on certain topics compared to men. The argument Lakoff gave was “How language is now build to make women “communicative cripples”. She then gave few examples base on everyday situation. Like lady like language should be use or how women are supposing to describe colors in a certain way or use tag questions. Lakoff future explains why these examples show how women aren’t powerful enough or are on equal level of importance than men.

Always apologizing when it’s unnecessary, to phrases making one sound negative. Ellen Welty explores the many ways that women may change they way they use words to make them sound less confident. Words women may use are ‘just’, ‘sorry’, and ‘like’. These in a sentence can easily make another person make the women feel bad in the conversation. Many words that are used in a woman’s vocabulary may show a difference when they are trying to say is not really meant. Simple single words can make a huge difference of how everyone may view a woman. Giving woman the ability to feel good about themselves and remembering to notice how the little things they say will change others perception of them when they begin using other ways of expressing their ideas, to having normal conversations with others.This story helps and gives advice of what women can use to practice in their everyday life to show

Gender and language initiate an approach to the study of language use and looks into relations between the meaning and gender. Christie provides a systematic introduction to pragmatic approaches explaining the rules of social language and how pragmatics can be realized be feminist analyses of language’s nature

The passive language women use when responding to a males reflect

Traditional thoughts on women’s communications show a notably stereotypical demonstration of ineffective communication characteristics. These characteristics include verbosity, constrained vocabulary, and indirect requests (Thorne and Henley, 1975). The authors at this point question the validity of the stereotypes in regard to writing style and quality. They assert that folk-linguistics, or the common beliefs about a

female. “ This is a divine party,” “ Such a lovely room,” or “ I think

Because these words give meaning to the persons they are referring to and their “likely dispositions,” women like to be included and associated with terms of higher value, which are men (Kleinman, 2002, pp. 68). Although this may not occur often, it still does here and there and it is not something that can be

In her July 2007 article “WHO DOES THE TALKING HERE?,” published in The Washington Post, Linguistic Professor Deborah Tannen expresses her expert insight to the common assumption that women speak more than men (356). According to Prof. Tannen, women, being concerned with building and maintaining relationships, use “rapport-talk” as opposed to men, who use more of a “Report-talk” style of communicating (357). The well-published author contends that merely counting words is insufficient for gaining understanding of the existing gender bias. However, we can gain (insight) to the differences in gender communication by analyzing “ when” people choose to speak, as well as, “why” people choose to speak (358).

After that, the total of each speaker was calculated into two single gender scores so that the data could be comparable between genders, providing evidence towards the

As in many other gender differences, miscommunication between males and females can be explained by either the biological aspect or the cultural/environmental aspect. Deborah Tannen, a University professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and an Author, suggests the biological explanation to

A study conducted by Eakins and Eakins regarding different behavior of genders in a meeting showed that it is due to the rank that the differences were linked to, rather than gender. Men took most of the turns and spoke the most whereas women, low ranked, were interrupted the most but spoke less. Another study by Edelsky in 1981 showed that in an organized faculty meeting which involved taking turns, men were more contributing in all discussions whereas in an informal meeting, women were more verbal. According to research, there are many more males in senior and prominent positions in most of the fields of jobs and most women occupy low-rank positions, so the communication differences become more obvious.

From a very early age, males and females are taught different linguistic practices. For example, communicative behaviors that are considered acceptable for boys may be considered completely inappropriate for girls.

It is a well-known fact that men and women have vastly different styles of nearly everything, communication not excluded. Women tend to be more talkative and emotional whereas men are usually reserved and not quite as open with their emotions. Many differences indeed exist between the spoken language of males and females. What about body language? Nonverbal cues are often difficult to notice and even harder to understand. Some people may not even realize when they are communicating in this sense. Like the spoken word, nonverbal communication usually varies between males and females, depending on relationships, environments, and circumstances. Learning why different genders communicate in this manner, the various ways in which they do this,

This is seen in two ways; the first is interpersonal interactions, and the second is representations of men and women in that are embedded in form and content of language. For example Cameron (1992) found that women are referred to by their first name as well as terms of endearment such as ‘love’ and ‘dear’. It shows that language and representations are closely linked and that language holds representation of ideas in clichés, epithets etc. It has also been represented that a women’s experience is systematically devalued in comparison to that of the male norm. Weitz (2003) has highlighted that throughout history women’s bodies have centrally affected the structures within which women live. Females are described as passive, for example Mother Nature. Objects such as cars and boats are mostly deemed female and temperamental and are also dominated by males. English language reflects the power that men have historically held in many areas of life. The sexist language against women shows them in lower social and economic status. An example of this is nouns ending in ‘ess’ e.g. waitress, stewardess, these are then seen as less significant than their male equivalents. This also applies to the suffix ‘ette’ this is giving feminine status to objects such as cigarette, this shows inferiority. Some studies have shown that individuals who do not believe in traditional sex stereotypical roles are less likely to write an educational essay using sexist language (McMinn, Lindsay,

Lakoff sees women “type” as a form of unique language which is "different" from men's because of their powerless position in society that considers male language as a standard language as a comparison, which cause women exploit number of features in language