Gender and Language

Who said that women are more supportive in their conversational styles?

(a)  

Write an explanation of Judith Butler's gender as performance idea.

Deborah Tannen talks about advice versus

(a)  

Which of the following theorists did the Norwich Study on language and social class?

• William Labov

• Peter Trudgill

• Paul Kerswill

• Howard Giles

Danielle Russell's research concentrates on...?

• Stand-up comedy as a marker of authenticity

• Women's use of self-deprecating humour

• Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers and Lisa lampanelli

The group of people you spend time with in a joint enterprise is called a

(a)  

How many of the following are features of powerless language according to Lakoff?

• empty adjectives

• hedging

• indirect commands/questions

• speaking italics

Interpreting reality in terms of opposing elements is termed:

• oppositional constructivism

• antithetic parallelism

• pathetic fallacy

• binary opposition

How many performances did Danielle Russell watch in her research on stand-up comedy?

• 133

• 47

• 150

• 160

'Stand-up comedy is an (a)   act' Danielle Russell