Essays Tagged: "Robin Lakoff"

Discuss the significant differences between men's and women's talk - the way they interact, their choices of words and phrases and the topics they like to discuss.

s, women are also less competitive, more cooperative and work harder at making things run smoothly. Robin Lakoff (1975) suggests that women do this by using more tag questions (e.g. isn't it? don't yo ...

(7 pages) 99 0 3.5 Jul/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Use of the word

acks believe it's time to end the idea that blacks cannot make a difference in the world. Professor Robin Lakoff explains, "[Nigger] that conveys, 'I don't even care what your name is, you have so lit ...

(8 pages) 1 0 0.0 Mar/2014

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues