Communicating Gendered Professional Identity: Competence, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Workplace

Thimm, Caja; Koch, Sabine C.; Schey, Sabine

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“…In this study, neither cross-cultural nor cross-gender analyses of the use of tag questions and intensifiers verify Lakoff"s claims. The findings of this study are similar to that of Dubois and Crouch (1975); O"Barr and Atkins (1980); Kollock, Blumstein, and Schwartz (1985); Thimm, Koch, and Schey (2003); Nemati and Bayer (2007), and Schleef (2009). Schleef (2009 researched tag questions and discourse markers usage in spoken academic discourse and he concluded that there was no difference between genders.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Kollock, Blumstein, and Schwartz"s (1985) research findings also supported O"Barr and Atkins"s findings. Thimm, Koch, and Schey (2003) also mention in their study that there is no link between gender and speech even though they admit that the results are open to discussion. When the findings of this study and the others mentioned above are considered, there is no link between gender and intensifier or tag question use.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Her ideas are consistent with Lakoff even though the reasoning is different. Thimm, Koch, and Schey (2003) carried out a study on hedges, intensifiers, softeners, vagueness, and emotive statements expressing personal involvement such as I like, I hate. The findings of the study showed slight and non-significant differences between women and men speech.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Gender-Bound Language Use in Turkish and English Plays: Implications for Foreign Language Education

Genç¹,

Armagan²

2018

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The aim of the study is to investigate gender-bound language use in Turkish and English languages and to identify the differences and similarities across cultures and genders in the plays with family and social themes. Four English and five Turkish plays were chosen randomly for comparison. The number of words in the plays were taken into consideration for an accurate and balanced analysis. For this reason, the closeness of the number of words used by male and female characters in the plays were more important than the number of plays in total. The Turkish plays consisted of 6781 words and the English plays comprised 7091 words. Thus, in the plays considered as samples of language, a total of 13.872 words were studied with respect to the use of intensifiers, hedges and tag questions in two major groups: (1) cross gender & same culture, (2) same gender & cross culture, within the framework of Lakoff"s (1975) proposal concerning linguistic differences between males and females. A Pearson chi-square test was conducted on the quantitative data for all the analyses. The findings of the study showed that there were significant differences only in the use of hedges. No significant differences in the use of intensifiers and tag questions within the corpus under investigation were observed between the groups. This cross-cultural comparison on English and Turkish implies that Lakoff"s proposition regarding gender-bound language use needs further exploration. The study sheds light upon intercultural communication, and raises awareness and understanding of whether and how language use differs between different genders and cultures, which might be helpful for teachers and learners during the processes of teaching and learning English or Turkish as a foreign language. Furthermore, when the results of the study are considered from the point of intercultural communication, this investigation unveils the similarities and differences between English and Turkish languages in terms of the use of intensifiers, hedges, and tag questions.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Gender-Bound Language Use in Turkish and English Plays: Implications for Foreign Language Education

Genç¹,

Armagan²

2018

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“…This snow ball rolled to avalanche studies within gender and language in regard to various social context extending from everyday encounters, as for instance, in the work of Tannen (1990) or Cameron (1998b), to workplace discourse like in Tannen (1994), Thimm, Koch & Schey (2003), Martin-Rojo (1997), Martin-Rojo and Gomez Esteban (2005) or Holmes (2005) and to political sphere as in the research of Lakoff Tolmach (2000), R. and Wodak (2003Wodak ( , 2005.…”

Section: Issues Of Female Leadership and Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Lithuanian Political Discourse: Expression of Agency and Responsibility

Bijeikienė

Mačianskienė

2016

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In light of the changing picture of gender representation in politics and most importantly in political leadership, Lithuania should be granted a special position among examples of women political leaders' success stories. On the one hand, the general proportion of female MPs in the Lithuanian Parliament Seimas 9 , is not at all impressive with 26 female (18%) vs. 115 male (82%) MPs in 2008-2012 term and 34 female (24%) vs. 107 male (76%) MPs elected in 2012. On the other hand, however, the highest political offices in Lithuania were held by women in 2008-2012 term: namely the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, the Speaker of Seimas Irena Degutienė, the Minister of Finance Ingrida Šimonytė and the Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė. The situation itself can be seen as a breaking point with regard to widely-quoted stereotypic assumptions, for instance, professions related to politics, economics and military issues are typical male professions (R. Lakoff, 2000, 2003; Walsh, 2001) or some underlying statistical evidence like the one provided by Wodak (2003) that women rarely occupy the top authoritative positions. Moreover, with around two years in office in her second term President Grybauskaitė has been largely enjoying people's support in popularity polls. This not only demonstrates a dramatic shift from traditional gender divisions of women being 'silenced' (Cameron, 1998, R. Lakoff, 1975), but also a rather significant move from the female discourse of resistance and survival presented by Martin-Rojo (1997) to the discourse of success. G. Lakoff (2004) claims that for political discourse to be successful it needs to be built on values. With these observations in mind, the present paper aims to investigate how such values as responsibility, fairness, active agency, etc. are delivered through choices of pronouns (Cf. Wilson, 1990) and equivalent morphological forms by the main political leaders in Lithuania: the President Dalia Grybauskaitė and the former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius. The data for analysis come from transcripts of political interviews available in the media. The study is based mainly on qualitative discourse analysis with some quantification for comparison.

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“…engineering, police, military), and the barriers and challenges they face in performing a feminine identity in such occupational roles. Women were often reported to adopt masculine linguistic styles in order to adapt to their work environment and perform their work role in these contexts (Rhoton 2011;Powell, Bagihole and Dainty 2008;Priola 2004;Miller 2004;Thimm, Koch and Schey 2003;McElhinny 1995). However, few scholars have focussed on men who cross into traditionally female occupations, with the language used by men in such environments attracting even less exploration (Holmes 2006;Nilsson and Larrson 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace

Vine¹

2017

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Communicating Gendered Professional Identity: Competence, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Workplace

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Gender-Bound Language Use in Turkish and English Plays: Implications for Foreign Language Education

A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Gender-Bound Language Use in Turkish and English Plays: Implications for Foreign Language Education

Lithuanian Political Discourse: Expression of Agency and Responsibility

The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace

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