Gender

• Lexical Asymmetry refers to there being differences in the way that men are described in contrast to how women are described. For exanple ‘lord’ and ‘lady’.
• Collocations refers to when words occur together and it is an innate ability to say them together. For example, ‘ladies and gentleman’.
• Tacit agreement is When you pretend to agree in order to dismiss a topic and not argue.
• Features of mansplaining are declarative and imperative sentences, no turn taking and passive aggression.
• Women are tied to the domestic sphere and do unpaid domestic labour such as cooking and cleaning.
• Phallocentric or a phallic reference is a reference to male parts.
• Backchannelling are short utterances that women make when talking. Theorised by Robin Lakoff.
• The 6 language discourses to discuss are: purity, control, decay, evolution and superiority.
• The Mirror are working class, support labour and is left wing.
• The Sun is working class, supports labour and is right wing and trashy.
• The Daily Mail is middle class, conservative and is a tabloid newspaper.
• The Times are middle class, conservative and is a broadsheet newspaper and more educated.
• The Guardian is more informative and subtly hides opinions within facts.
• Parenthetical clauses are clauses which exist in brackets.
• Phatic conversations are conversations which fulfil a social function. Also known as small talk.
• Polari is a secret code used by gay men to communicate when homosexuality was illegal.
• Political correctness is avoiding language which could be deemed as offensive.
• Due to covert prestige, boys are more likely to embrace their 'anti-establishment' identity. An example would be is that there are more burnouts than jocks, that are male.
• An example of lexical asymmetry is a man being referred to as 'lord' vs a women being referred to as 'lady'.