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Additional Information for the Teacher’s Reference
Text You Are What You Say
Warm-up Activities
Further Reading
Writing Skills
Additional Work
Warm-up Activities
Warm-up 1
How is women’s language different from men’s? Summary the main features of women’s language with examples you can think of.
Do you think such pairs of words as “bachelor/spinster” and “widow/widower” are real linguistic parallels? What are the different connotations of members of each pair?
Can you think of examples of euphemism in the Chinese language and culture?
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Robin Lakoff is an American author and professor of linguistics. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Radcliffe College, Indiana University, and Harvard University for her ., ., and . respectively. Since 1972, she has taught in the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written Language and Woman’s Place (1975) and coauthored Face Value: The Politics of Beauty (1984). In her most recent book, The Language War (2000), Lakoff analyzes the 1990’s backlash, primarily by white men, to the previous decade’s “politically correct” speech movement.
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1. Robin Lakoff
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Women use more “fancy” color terms such as “mauve” and “beige”.
Women use less powerful curse words.
Women use more powerful intensifiers such as “terrible” and “awful”.
Women use more tag questions.
Women use more statement questions like “Dinner will be ready at seven o’clock?” (with a rising intonation at the end)
Women’s linguistic behavior is more indirect and, hence, more polite than men’s.
2. Women Register in the language
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Text
You Are What You Say
Notes
Introduction to the Author and the Article
Phrases and Expressions
Exercises
Main Idea of the Text
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Main Idea of the Text
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