Gender Speech Community

As the stage movie is a movie covering time that women are not permitted to enter the stage, female characters are drawn by male actors. The movie clearly shows the style of communication between men and women. These characters provide a good example of how women and men communicate through different aspects of nonverbal communication - kinematics, touch, artifacts, agents, and sublanguages. Kinetics refers to body movement, posture, facial expression (Wood 140).

We have seen socialization as a process of gender encouraging men and women to acquire gender identity. In order to broaden this understanding, we are now exploring how socialization creates a gender language community. One way to understand how boys and girls communicate is to observe infants in the game. In exchange with friends, boys and girls learn how to talk and how to interpret each other 's words and find ways to express their intentions with words and how to respond appropriately to others' communication. Tannen, 1990a). In short, talking with colleagues will teach children's rules.

When they share a set of specifications on talking about how groups of people talk about the purpose of service, they form a community of speech. Different voice communities will have different ways of using symbols. Consider, for example, how the symbol is used not in the mainstream of society but in the future career and current work. Gender is a prominent community of speech. Since I was young, men and women have been socialized into communities that speak certain gender. Women are more expressive and have a tendency to worry, but men tend to be more dexterous and more competitive. Because of gender difference, there is a common misunderstanding between men and women when observing the language community.

Question: Please explain oral communication on two pages with close friends and romantic partners.

A group of people in the speech community who have linguistic features and way of speaking. They can be geographically close to each other, or share social characteristics such as age, gender, socio-economic class. The concept of the language community helps to study how nonverbal features such as geographic location and socioeconomic status are related to language use. Style transitions are adjusted or changed from one language style to another. Changing style is mainly automatic or unconscious reaction to situation, viewer or theme, but it may be intentional in some cases. Style transformations are always done in the same language, not transcoding. This includes conversion between different languages. Back to Contents