Gender Wider Reading

Women use self-depricating language, as features of double discourse
Women use apologetic language; leading to to the development of Google software:  Just Not Sorry' to remove apologetic language from female language

Channel 4's Word of the Year:
Neologisms challenge patriarchy,

  • 'hepeated'- used to emphasise how female ideas are undermined by men who repeat the same idea, but recieves credit
  • 'mansplain': pstriarchsal belief that males use 
    • Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis: neologisms expose issues, platform for people to discuss issues = empowered female language 
    • Ann Curzan TED Talk consolidated this is 'what makes a word real'
Female voice coaching, in which female sin power adopt masculine features of spoken discourse:#
  • Lower voice, steady pace

Katherine Hilton, Linguistics doctorate at Stanford University,
"what people perceive as an interruption varies systematically across different speakers and speech acts"
  • Interruptive (male competiton)
  • Co-operative (female)

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