Sociolinguistics 3, Exercise 2: gender models

"men speak a report style, women a rapport style"   difference (dual cultures)
                                                    Deborah Tannen, 1990
"gendered speech is enacted in interaction"         social constructionist
                                                    West and Zimmerman, "doing
                                                    gender", 1987
"women's speech is deficient"                       deficit; the page notes
                                                    Jespersen said this as early
                                                    as 1922, and Lakoff (1975)
                                                    described a "women's
                                                    register"
"differences reflect male power"                    dominance
                                                    Spender; West and Zimmerman

Source: Wikipedia, Language and gender. Cameron criticises the difference
approach and argues the evidence does not support Tannen's claims about
male-female miscommunication (2007).