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AQA A Coursework - Language & Gender - theorists?!

I'm just completing my English Language coursework but I still need a few more words.
I'm hoping someone could maybe let me know of some other theorists I could look into to write about? :smile:

I'm looking at tag questions and interruptions and I've already wrote about Fishman, Cameron and Coates, Lakoff, Zimmerman and West and Tannen, thanks!

Reply 1

merkatron

Original post by glitterphobia

I'm just completing my English Language coursework but I still need a few more words.
I'm hoping someone could maybe let me know of some other theorists I could look into to write about? :smile:

I'm looking at tag questions and interruptions and I've already wrote about Fishman, Cameron and Coates, Lakoff, Zimmerman and West and Tannen, thanks!

That sounds like plenty, so it's probably a question of writing more elsewhere than adding more theorists!

Have you related the work of these theorists/researchers to your own data analysis yet?

Reply 2

glitterphobia

Original post by merkatron

That sounds like plenty, so it's probably a question of writing more elsewhere than adding more theorists!

Have you related the work of these theorists/researchers to your own data analysis yet?

Thanks! Wasn't sure in which area I could add more
I have, but I think it's just the matter of finding more things in my transcripts to talk about XD
thanks anyway :smile:

Reply 3

sliceofbrice

i need to find theorists who talk about language used in same sex relationships.. anyone help me?

Reply 4

merkatron

Original post by sliceofbrice

i need to find theorists who talk about language used in same sex relationships.. anyone help me?

If you can find anything by Paul Baker (Sexed Texts is a good place to start) he looks at queer linguistics in some depth. Deborah Cameron's The Language and Sexuality Reader is handy. Not sure there's much online though...

Reply 5

koutg001

Original post by sliceofbrice

i need to find theorists who talk about language used in same sex relationships.. anyone help me?

[h="4"]Jennifer Coates and Deborah Jones[/h]Jennifer Coates looks at all-female conversation and builds on Deborah Tannen's ideas.

http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/gender.htm#coatesandjones