LING001 UOP Language Differences Between Men & Women Essay

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Language and Gender Constructs: Problems

Gender is a social construct. The idea that people who are born with one set of genitals or another automatically come equipped with all of the societal expectations and habits built into them has been proven to be incorrect, and has also been proven to be damaging. We are creatures of infinite variance and beauty, and restricting ourselves to an arbitrary set of boxes does not work to our advantage. However, this binary concept is worked deep into our core from a young age, impressed upon us from every angle, including from one of the most basic tools we use to communicate with each other: Our language. Language influences our idea of gender, and therefore can affect our actions in hundreds of subtle and not­so­subtle ways.

Over the last few weeks, I participated in a group study to attempt to suss out some of the ways gender can alter behaviors. In particular, we studied the interactions between men and women. We recorded a number of ten minute conversations between men and women of different ages, relationships, and doing different activities, and came up with some common differences between them.

In our conversations, men and women spoke, on average, for . . . . [end of excerpt from 3.5 page 8 paragraph double spaced paper]




Note on the individual paper I expect a cohesive project, where each member participates--each understands the research that was conducted, the findings, the analysis and the way it came together into a final report. So toward that end, I expect everyone to be able to document this work--not just their part of it but the whole project. Your individual paper is really a presentation of what your group did, what its thesis was, and what evidence supports that thesis. If you are a slacker and did not participate, this is where you are going to pay for that and where those who did all the work will get to shine. Hopefully, clarity on the individual paper will motivate everyone to be invested!

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Linguistic Fieldwork Project Language and Gender Jonghoon Lee Angela Mengxue Lei Liujin Chen Zichen Wang What was our thought about the difference of gender of language? - Not a gender issue but more about personality. - Language is equal for for genders - The speech rate of men and women is different in different groups Difference of Sex and Gender - Sex - Biological characteristics to define male and female. - Gender - The social appropriate role of men and women in socially constructed roles, behaviors, and activities (Main point) What Words Male and Female Use? Male Female yeah, man, hey, sort cool, what, bro, bucks, uh, ah gosh, goodness, her, children, oh, my, home, uh-huh How’s Grammar is Different between Male and Female? Male 1. 2. 3. Usage of incorrect past-tense verb No relationship of number of rhymings with the past-tense verb Tend to use irregular grammar Female 1. 2. 3. Tend to memorize the verb form to use correctly Trying to be apply the verbs to rhyming irregular verb. Tend to use standard grammar Thus… ➢ Female can use more proper sentence than male. ➢ Females have more feeling words than men in conversations. ➢ Females are swearing more than men. ➢ Females use more modal verbs than men. How's the way of conversation for male, and for female? 1. 2. 3. The topic of male conversation is economics, sports and news, and female like to talk about fashion, family and health. Female Tendency towards overall weakening of communicative intention,male More direct expression of communicative intention. Female frequent use of questions and tag questions to structure talk, Male language has more aggressiveness. The Conversation between Male and Female Learn English in 3 Hours - How Male and Female Feel Differently in Same Words The Result of Conversation 1. Male (A) talked more than female (B) a. b. c. Male (5 minutes 2 seconds) Female (4 minutes 42 seconds) Empty period (16 seconds) 2. Female interrupted male’s communication 6 times, while male interrupted only 1 time. 3. Female started and finished the conversation. 4. Female showed more active interaction than male. Total : Male : 2 + 0 + 2 + 0 = 4 Female: 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 8 Male Female Questioning 2 4 Demanding 0 1 Instructing 2 2 Correcting 0 1 The Result of Conversation 5. Female referred about the events more than male Total: Male: 2 + 0 = 2 Female: 2 + 1 = 3 Male Female Past Events 2 2 Future Events 0 1 Conclusion - Female tends to show more active than male, even she spoke shorter than male. (She tends to have more conversation.) Why the same sentence boys and girls may have different understanding? The same sentence that men and women say often has different meanings. Because each other's words or different points are different, it is easy to misunderstand and cause disputes. It is important that women focus on emotional performance and men focus on conveying facts. Why girls prefer to chat more than boys? While listening to the other person's speech, the man is used to silence, while the brain is running at high speed, so that he can find a solution to the problem in time. Women are used to listening and resonating while listening to others. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/4125852/Girls-play-less-energetically-than-boys-because-they-prefer-to-chat.html Reference 1. 2. What Words Male and Female Use? https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13873 Conclusion https://www.ajc.com/news/national/study-women-are-now-swearing-more-than-men/k7ujlWitUocjlSGddqqjsL/ 3. https://www.ksl.com/article/32405343/study-shows-why-women-may-express-emotion-more-than-men 4. How's the way of conversation for male, and for female?http://www.ello.uos.de/field.php/Sociolinguistics/Conversationalstylesofwomenandmen
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Running head: LANGUAGE AND GENDER
Language and Gender
Student’s Name
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LANGUAGE AND GENDER

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Language and Gender
Introduction

Whenever the topic of gender arises, people are quick to choose sides concerning their
respective gender. Though this should not be the case, it is crucial to understand that to come
to any definitive agreements on matters to do with gender; we have to evaluate the different
factors that each gender would want to be discussed in discussions to do with gender. In our
case, we assess the factors that affect the speech of the male and female gender, and through
the results and information we obtain from the study, we get to see whether the language
between men and women . We have to consider the role played by gender in studying
literature and speech per se. We attempt to show how the different making of both genders
affects their use of language and if the use of language differs between both sexes.
Gender is a social construct. The idea that people who are born with one set of genitals or
another automatically come equipped with all of the societal expectations and habits built
into them has been proven to be incorrect and has also been shown to be damaging. We are
creatures of infinite variance and beauty, and restricting ourselves to an arbitrary set of boxes
does not work to our advantage. However, this binary concept is worked deep into our core
from a young age, impressed upon us from...


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