WorksheetsLanguage & Gender by Hall et al.
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which line is most likely women's language according to Lakoff's dominance/deficit model?
Oh dear, you've put the peanut butter in the refrigerator again.
Shit, you've put the peanut butter in the refrigerator again.
Janice: This soup is bl****y disgusting!! Passers-by who notices Janice: Luckily our daughter doesn't behave like that. What concept does this most clearly show?
Language variation
Hyper-correction
Speech communities
Indexicality
In the army, one is expected to endure physical and mental challenges as a soldier. Which concept does this most clearly show?
Language attitudes
Indexicality
Community of Practice
Covert prestige
Drag queens emphasise their hybrid identities by combining linguistic features that are stereotypically masculine (use of swear words), feminine (hypercorrection) and gay (gay slang words).
What concept does this most clearly show?
Dominance
Gender performativity
Intersectionality
Women’s language
Which of the following groups are cis-gender women?
Barrett (2017) studied various US gay male subcultures in his book "From Drag Queens to Leathermen" . Which of the following did he NOT study?
radical fairies
barebackers
circuit boys
sequiners
Which of the following groups of people did NOT show the effects of race on their gender practices?
African American women’s speech styles.
High school students in Detroit, USA.
Rival Mexican American girl gangs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
French-Algerian teenage girls in Paris.
Moroccan girls in Spain.
Which of the following institutions are LEAST likely to have an effect on gendered speech?
Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)
Little Paddington Preschool
The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)
Shopee.
“Speech acts necessitate the body” (Pinto, 2012). Which of the following are NOT examples of embodiment in language & gender as discussed in the reading?
Gestures
Self-harm
Hairstyles
Tattoos
Personal space
Which researcher did NOT study the role of media in its portrayal of women, according to the reading?
Miller, 2004.
Gagné, 2008.
Hiramoto, 2012.
Slobe, 2018.
