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Niteshift
Mon, Jan 8, 2024 22:00 PM
- TOPICS: -
- Language and Woman's Place -
- The Language Women Use in the Workplace (BBC article) -
- What women can and can't talk about in comedy -
- The inherent dangers of certain kinds of ‘talk’ -
- Black women in comedy -
- Cadence & inflections -
- Filler Words And Their Use As Identifiers For Women -
- The Evolution Of Filler Words -
- Discourse Particles -
- What Are The Rules Of The Space? -
- Linguistic Features That Rise To The Level Of Public Consciousness. -
- You Talk Like a Girl: Stereotypes about Women’s Language -
THEME:
THE LANGUAGE OF WOMEN part 2
Women’s language and the rules of the space
With Co-Hosts:
Kelly E. Wright - Wright's research in Sociophonetics, Neurolinguistics, and Historical Sociolinguistics focuses on the link between Linguistic Production and Perception. She applies mixed methodologies including machine learning; massive corpora studies; perceptual and cognitive experimentation; and quantitative phonetic and qualitative sociolinguistic analysis.
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Leighann Lord - Leighann is a comedian, writer, and actress. She performs stand-up comedy, has appeared on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and is a former co-host (with Neil deGrasse Tyson) of the Star Talk Radio podcast.[1][2] As of April 2020, Lord became a co-host for Center for Inquiry's Point of Inquiry podcast.[3] She is a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
- Leighann Lord -
THE WORD OF THE YEAR:
Enshittification, also known as platform decay,[1] is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. Enshittification can be seen as a form of rent-seeking.[2] Examples of alleged enshittification have included Amazon, Bandcamp, Facebook, Google Search, Quora, Reddit, Twitter and YouTube.
What is the meaning of women's language?
'Woman's language' has as foundation the attitude that women are marginal to the serious concerns of life, which are pre-empted by men. The mar- ginality and powerlessness of women is reflected in both the ways women are expected to speak, and the ways in which women are spoken of.
What are the characteristics of the language of women?
In phonology, features of the language of women are mainly present in pronunciation, tone, pitch. Vocabulary of women is more abundant, polite and euphemistic than men. The features of the language of women contain intensifiers and exaggerated adjectives, interjections, nicknames or diminutive and color words.
