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WorksheetsEnglish Language A-Level: Gender & Language
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 6mins
Who theorized The Deficit Model?
Robin Lakoff
Robyn Lakof
Robin Lakof
Robyn Lakoff
Did she believe that Women's Language is innately weaker?
No
Yes
What is the Deficit Model?
The tendency to focus more on someone’s weakness classifying eg.cognitive impairment.
Men try harder in their speech then women do as their position is weaker in society
Women try harder in their speech then men do as their position is weaker society
Public hostility towards science and technology because of their lack of understanding
Which of the following is a characteristic of Women’s Language
More use of humor and jokes
Overt Prestige
Covert Prestige
Paraphrasing
Which of the following is a characteristic of Men’s Language
Hedging
Uncommon use of Strict Politeness
More likely to use expletives
Use of direct quotations
Which out of the following is one of the six characteristics of the Difference model 1990
Sympathy Vs. Empathy
Direct Vs. Indirect
Co-efficiency Vs.Efficiency
Status Vs. Support
Who coined the term ‘Verbal Hygiene’
Pilkington
Tannen
O’Barr
Deborah Cameron
What is the definition of Genderlect?
Feminine and Masculine styles of discourse are best viewed as one distinct culture dialect
Feminine and Masculine styles of discourse are best viewed as two distinct culture dialects
Feminine and Masculine styles of discourse are best merged together to become a cultural dialect
Feminine and Masculine styles of discourse are best viewed as having no difference in culture dialect
O’Barr and Atkins looked at which location to conduct their study
A Courtroom
A Police Station
A Hospital
A School
O’Barr and Atkins found which two following professions had similar speech
Housewives and Ambulance Drivers
Truck Drives and Stay at Home Dads
Surgeons and Lawyers
Politicians and Lawyers
When was the Difference Model formed?
2000
1970
1980
1990
What does the term Mimicry mean?
When one ignores someone’s cry
When ones copy another’s language dialect and style
When someone refuses to copy another’s language dialect and style
When a meme cries
Who came up with the term 'Discourse Communities'?
Anna-Brita Stenström
Unni Berland
John Swales
Gary Ives
According to Lakoff’s theory (Deficit Model), would language features do women tend to use?
Hedges
Apologize more
Tag questions
All of the above
What can we conclude about women’s language from the results obtained by the ESRC study?
Women now swear / use expletives as much as men do on average.
Women now swear / use expletives more in average.
Women’s language has remained the same.
Women still need to develop their language further to make it more similar to men’s
