CMN2160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 36: Interpersonal Communication
25 Jan 2018
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Muted group: people belonging to low-power groups who must change their language when communicating publicly, thus, their ideas are often overlooked; ex. women. Private distinction in language: within the logic of a two-sphere assumption, women speak often in the home a small world of interpersonal communication. But their words appear less often in the large world of significant public debate = a place where the words of men resonate. If a man wants to contest the point about a level playing field, he can argue in the familiar idiom of sports. There is no corresponding vocabulary to disparage men"s conversation. This can also be seen in the ways to describe sexually promiscuous individuals. To describe a man who is sexually loose there are roughly 22 gender-related words, whereas there are more than 200 words to label sexually loose women.
