Friday, 7 October 2016
Investigation ideas
Language investigation
Deborah Tannen's advice versus understanding idea
I will investigate whether it's true that men look at a problem as a challenge and women look at a problem as a an opportunity to offer sympathy.
“When my mother tells my father she doesn't feel well, he invariably offers to take her to the doctor. Invariably, she is disappointed with his reaction. Like many men, he is focused on what he can do, whereas she wants sympathy.”
beth kemps ideas that taboo language towards females is becoming a joke
https://aggslanguage.wordpress.com/language-theorists-put-to-the-test/
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Looking at gendered language is a really interesting area. Try and imagine what it might be possible to collect or how you might test a particular idea.
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