Speech Style and The Fluctuating Salience of Sex  

Oleh:

Giles, Howard ; Smith, Philip M. ; Ford, Barry ; Condor, Susan ; Thakerar, Jitendra N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 2 no. 2 (1980), page 260-282.
Fulltext: 02_02_Giles.pdf (998.78KB)

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Several empirical studies are reviewed which demonstrate the important role of speech style as a basis for making inferences about women's and men's personalities, attitudes, and behaviors. In the type of study that we describe, the regional accent and inferred socioeconomic stattts of the speaker are more salient determinants of speaker evaluation than is speaker sex. Furthermore, the familiar finding that RP accented speech carries middle class connotations, while regional speech is associated with working class stereotypes, is shown to generalize from men to women. Listeners are also able to differentiate reliably and accurately between men and women speakers who vary as to how typically masculine and feminine they consider themselves to be, and these descriptive differentiations are closely tied to patterns of evaluative discrimination among the speakers. New data are introduced, however, which have caused us to reevaluate some of our previous findings. Consequently, we (1) no longer regard female RP speech, as the voice of perceived androgyny, and (2) are encouraged to look for a more general explanation of the finding that listeners can distinguish feminist from non-feminist speakers. The implications of the data for future research are fully discussed.

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