ANT253H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: James W. Pennebaker, William Labov, Functor
17 Aug 2017
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The title is a sign of respect as well as a marker of formal language use. On the other hand, we would not address our friends using such titles: honorifics, as titles and other such speech strategies are called, are found throughout the world. They signal differences in class and in types of relations among speakers: language mirrors all kinds of social phenomena. In some societies, men and women speak differently. Nevertheless, the use of one or the other word according to the gender of the speaker is considered to be socially important. some other socially significant phenomenon: the markers are not limited to differences in vocabulary. The word: gender-based markers exist in english as well. Kramer showed that captions of cartoons taken from a number of differences between men"s and women"s speech in response to a specific situation. The subjects were instructed to classify the captions according to male and female speech characteristics, with no hesitation.
