O’Barr and Atkins

• Date

  1980
• Model

  Disagrees with Lakoff and the deficit model
• Methodology

  Listened to recordings of courtrooms for Lakoff‘s observations
• conclusions

  Deficit is not due to sex but instead power difference in the context
• Conclusions

  Women’s language is not weaker than men’s
• Conclusions

  Men also used these features due to social status and not sex
• Criticisms

  Not considered other contexts