ANT425H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Emic And Etic, Concrete Category
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Both authors focus on speaker"s performances for their own purposes. Cameron: speech to show gender in speech performance; not to genders exclusivity. Tannen: no specific identity; recognizes the construction of speech in its replication. Unwilling to reduce speech to stable category. Storytelling = heart of everyday; create a sense of drama. Tannen: criticism; most americans accept truth to reported criticism. Replaces report speech with constructive dialogue because it is an active act of creating a new speech act. Lines of dialogue owe to human memory = not the same as those spoken -> reported speech is not reported but creatively constructed by criticism. Examines reported context can transform the speech. Cameron: people do not perform gender differently in different contexts. Use speech differentiations to categorize male speech (competition) v. female speech (cooperative) Men"s talk of gossip - disguise it as something else (won"t gossip in the presence of other women)
