405 Men's and Women's Speech

Gender and Language/Communication

Structural issues

- grammatical gender in language

- tag questions, qualifiers, intonation

- color terminology and cussing

- prestige forms, hyper-correctness, and status

Interactional issues

- amount of speech

- interruption

- topics of speech (e.g., sports, business, celebrities, feelings)

- interpersonal skill (cooperative mode of speech)

- kinesics and proxemics

Broad cultural issues

- differential language learning chronology and skill

- language and education (elaborated code and men's language)

- active/passive; teachers' choices

- role of men and women in language change