A-level English language studies and revision

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Pamela Fishman (1983) - gender theory

Fishman was responsible for the dominance model a year after Cheshire's study. she focused on tag questions, listening to 52 hours of pr...
Jenny Cheshire (1982) - gender theory

In 1982 another renowned study was published. Cheshire looked specifically at certain grammatical variations in the speech of young children...
Deborah Tannen (1990) - gender theory

Deborah Tannen - Tannen was originally a student of Robin Lakoff and her book 'you just don't understand' was published in 1990...
Robin Lakoff (1975) - gender theory

Robin Lakoff created a list of female traits of language in 1975: 1. Hedges: phrases like 'sort of', 'kind of', or 'it...
Peter Trudgill - Norwich study (1974)

Peter Trudgill – 1974 Norwich Study – how gender affects dialect in each social class – Looking at “walking”& “talking” as the ...
Language and Gender theories

Deborah Tannen Her theory, the difference model, explains that being two separate genders impacts our language and can cause miscommun...
Language and Sociolect theorists

William La Bov · 1966 New York Study - individual speech patterns are “part of a highly systematic structure of social and styl...
Milroy - Belfast study

Milroy’s Belfast Study -Members of a speech community are connected to each other in social networks which may be relatively ‘closed’ or ‘...
Bernstein - Restricted code and Elaborated code (1971)

Bernstein: Language and Social Class – Restricted code and Elaborated code – Rather than distinguishing between Standard Englis...
William Lebov - Martha's Vineyard study (1972)

William Labov –Martha’s Vineyard Study – individual speech patterns are “part of a highly systematic structure of social and stylistic str...