Group 5: Diastika RiandiniSaid RamadhanFebby KarlinaDewi Nur AffifahNovi Rahayu A. NRahayu Setyowati

Robin Lakoff, women were using language which reinforced their subordinate status, they were colluding in their own subordination focused on differences between womens and mens speech in the areas pronounciation.

There are two language features used by women:

Hedging devicessignal lack of confidenceBoosting devicesSignal persuade their addressee to take them seriously

Based on Lakoffs research, women use more tag question than men. They use it as facilitative positive politeness device. While men, most of them use it to express their uncertainty.

But the degree of politeness between women and men is not only shown by their devices, but also it can be influenced by the culture, status, role, interaction patterns in the society and etc.

There are many features of interaction which differentiate the talk of women and men:

1. Interruptions

In same-gender interactions, interruptions were pretty evenly distributed between speakers. In cross-gender interactions, almost all the interruptions were from males.

2. Conversational Feedback

Women provide more encouraging feedback to their conversational partners than men do. Research, on conversational interaction reveals women as cooperative conversationalists, whereas men tend to be more competitive and less supportive of others.

gender rather than occupational status, social class, or some other social factor, which most adequately accounts for the interactional patterns described.

The societally subordinate position of women reflected in these parterns has more to do with gender than role occupation.

Women gossipingusually consist of experiences, problems, feelingavoid criticizing people in order not to make the atmosphere becomes discomfort

Men GossipingTend to agrue about certain certain topics, criticized each other and sometimes make the conversational partner feels down.

We generlly treat gender as given and unalterable, automatically classifying every person we encounter as female or male without a moments reflection.

Approcing gender identity as a construction, rather than as a fixed category.

-the ways in which people construct particular kinds of social identity is through their narratives of personal experience

Sexiest language is one example of the way a culture or society conveys its values from one group to another and from one generation to the next.

Language conveys attitudes. Sexist attitudes stereotype a person according to gender rather than a judging on individual merits.

The study of sexist language is concerned with the way language express both negative and positive stereotypes of both of men and women.

In practice research in this area has concentrated on the ways in which language conveys negative attitudes

English language discriminates against women.Most obviously, perhaps, in semantics area the English metaphors available to describe women include extraordinarily high number of deragatory images compared to those used to describe a men.

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