It was 8:34am. She rushed into the office cradling her work and holding holding her coffee tightly between her chin and the ring binder. She attempted to open the door single handedly. She succeeded. Just.
She battled her way through the hoards of high heels and high egos to eventually get onto the home stretch of reaching her office. As she approached it, a tall silhouette of a man blocked her path, he took her by surprise and before she could even adjust her gaze, the man bumped straight into her, her Starbucks laté exploded all down the front of her new white blouse as she also dropped mountain of work.
"Shit I'm so sorry" said the unfamiliar face.
Without even looking up she barked "do you even realise who I -"
Their eyes caught one another as they both reached for the ring binder. His hand brushed hers in an attempt to rescue the laté soaked work. She got a better look of the tall, dark and handsome stranger who 5 minutes ago ruined her blouse. She suddenly no longer cared for the blouse.
She stuttered "it was an accident, don't wor-"
"Let me make it up to you, this evening?" He bravely proclaimed.
"What do you have in mind?" She replied.
"You'll just have to wait and see, meet me in the lobby at 7" he said, the corners of his mouth slightly raising.
She straightened herself up whilst beginning to walk away "7, lobby, got it"
As she got closer to her office the thought dawned on her, she never even got his name , as she began to turn around on her heel she said "I never even got your name"
The man had disappeared.
Thursday, 16 April 2015
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Language and Gender theories
Language and Gender theories
Dominance theory -
The dominance theory, associated with Don Zimmerman, Candace West, Pamela Fisherman, is the theory that men are more likely to interrupt than women. This concludes that due to being more interruptive they are more dominant as opposed to women, on the other hand interruptions could possibly "reflect interest and involvement". Pamela Fisherman goes on to say how conversations between sexes can sometimes fail, not because of women, but because of the way men respond, or don't respond.
Difference theory - Deborah Tannen
The difference theory, is the idea that women's and men's speech isn't the same as each other. She says that there are six different contrasts that represent male and female language.
Status vs. Support - Men grow up trying not to let others dominate them in speech while women like to gain support for their ideas
Independence vs. Intimacy - Men tend to focus on independence while women think in terms of closeness and support and struggle to preserve intimacy
Advice vs. Understanding - To many men a complaint is a challenge to find a solution, e.g. woman not feeling well tells husband, husband says to go to the doctor while the woman wanted sympathy
Information vs. Feelings - Men more likely to tell information while women say their feelings
Orders vs. Proposals - Men more likely use and also prefer to hear direct imperatives, while women are usually indirect
Conflict vs. Compromise - Men more likely to assert themselves as opposed to women
Jennifer Coates and Deborah Jones -
Women's conversations are split into four different categories.
House talk - exchange of information and resources connected with the female role
Scandal- judging other people, especially women
Bitching - women's anger at their inferior status, they only 'bitch' to other women and in private, they don't expect change but just want to be understood
Chatting - a form of 'gossip'
Bibliography -
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/gender.htm#dominance
Dominance theory -
The dominance theory, associated with Don Zimmerman, Candace West, Pamela Fisherman, is the theory that men are more likely to interrupt than women. This concludes that due to being more interruptive they are more dominant as opposed to women, on the other hand interruptions could possibly "reflect interest and involvement". Pamela Fisherman goes on to say how conversations between sexes can sometimes fail, not because of women, but because of the way men respond, or don't respond.
Difference theory - Deborah Tannen
The difference theory, is the idea that women's and men's speech isn't the same as each other. She says that there are six different contrasts that represent male and female language.
Status vs. Support - Men grow up trying not to let others dominate them in speech while women like to gain support for their ideas
Independence vs. Intimacy - Men tend to focus on independence while women think in terms of closeness and support and struggle to preserve intimacy
Advice vs. Understanding - To many men a complaint is a challenge to find a solution, e.g. woman not feeling well tells husband, husband says to go to the doctor while the woman wanted sympathy
Information vs. Feelings - Men more likely to tell information while women say their feelings
Orders vs. Proposals - Men more likely use and also prefer to hear direct imperatives, while women are usually indirect
Conflict vs. Compromise - Men more likely to assert themselves as opposed to women
Jennifer Coates and Deborah Jones -
Women's conversations are split into four different categories.
House talk - exchange of information and resources connected with the female role
Scandal- judging other people, especially women
Bitching - women's anger at their inferior status, they only 'bitch' to other women and in private, they don't expect change but just want to be understood
Chatting - a form of 'gossip'
Bibliography -
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/gender.htm#dominance
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