Acquiring status in conversation: 'Male"and 'Female' discourse strategies  

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Watts, Richard J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 18 no. 5 (Nov. 1992), page 467-503.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JPR/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Distinctions are often made between 'male' and 'female discourse strategies, for example, that women use minimal listener responses more frequently than men or that men interrupt more frequently than women. In the present article I outline one way of assesing how and to what degree female and male discourse participants gain status during the discourse. The notion of social network is adapted to allow an assesment of the interpersonal links created as the discourse progresses through time, the revised concept being termed the emergent network. Within each emergent network 'powerful strategies' allow the participant to acquire more prestige than neutral strategies. Extracts from three videotaped stretches of discourse involving non-native teachers of English submitted to a network/status analysis to show that women and men have equal access to both kinds of strategy, but that the women do indeed make greater use of neutral strategies than the men and that their use of the more 'prestigious' strategies is more supportive and less competitive than that of the men. The fundamental question that remains is why certain types of discourse strategy should be seen as more prestigious than others.

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