scholarly journals Masculinity and Femininity in Yuriko Koike's Speech Style

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Parwati Hadi Noorsanti
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
Feminine Style ◽  
Public Report ◽  
And Task

This study aims at describing Yuriko Koike’s speech style in conducting verbal interaction in public in relation to her profession as a politician and the Governor of Tokyo. In relation to gender stereotypes, women have a feminine speech style while men have a masculine speech style. The activities as a woman politician and leader will indeed affect Yuriko Koike’s language use in public communication, whether she fully incorporates a feminine style or also employs a masculine style. The data of this study is Yuriko Koike’s utterances in verbal interaction taken from YouTube, comprising informal talk shows, formal talk shows, and press conferences. The data are analyzed with the theories of gender and language, as well as speech style, proposed by Holmes and Stubbe (2003) and Talbot (2003). From the data obtained, it can be deduced that Yuriko Koike’s speech style is androgynous, which combines masculine and feminine speech styles. Her speech style, therefore, does not reflect the stereotypical style of the traditional Japanese women, which is polite, soft, unassertive, and indirect. Instead, Yuriko Koike is the depiction of the deconstruction of Japanese women’s communication today, by which she shows herself as a respected leader to her political opponents. Koike generally has a communication style of a leader, that is public, report, lecturing, referentially oriented, problem-solving, dominating, and task/outcome-oriented. Specifically, her masculine speech style includes direct, competitive, independent-autonomy, and dominant, while her feminine styles were effectively oriented-sympathy, rapport, intimacy-connection, collaborative, and supportive feedback.Keywords: speech style; feminine; masculine; Yuriko Koike

Working-Class Culture as Political Participation: Reading Trump as Revolt Against a Middle-Class Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Liberty Kohn
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Deep Foundations ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
White Working Class

The 2016 election cycle and ensuing presidency of Donald Trump has been attributed in large part to his support among working-class whites (Gest 2016, p. 193; Tyson and Maniam 2016). Their reasons for support, however, are open to interpretation. This article will suggest that elements of Donald Trump’s public communication style and ethos align with elements of working-class culture, language use, and knowledge construction. Trump’s anti-institutional, anti-government rhetoric reifies these components of working-class culture because of institutions’ and government’s deep foundations in middle-class culture, language use, and knowledge construction—and the working-class’s, especially the white working-class’s, alienation from these institutions, with the result being anger or apathy (Lareau 2003; Jensen 2012; Gest 2016). These values are often embedded in a master narrative that defines white working-class life as one of victimization (Hochschild 2016; Gest 2016; Cramer 2016). The article next suggests that Trump’s oft-used rhetorical framework of not just immigrants as threat, but of immigrants as protected and valued by institutions that overlook white workingclass concerns (Gest 2016), opens up one possible persuasive framework to legitimate Trump’s xenophobia and racism through white working-class attitudes.

scholarly journals Zing Zing Bang Bang: How Do You Know What She Really Meant. Gender Bias in Response to Irony: The Role of Who is Speaking to Whom

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Milanowicz ◽  
Piotr Kałowski
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Intergroup Bias ◽  
Comparison Theory ◽  
Stereotype Activation ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Activation Conditions

Abstract Literature points towards the role of context in irony interpretation and the existence of gender differences in language use. We decided to examine the influence of interlocutors’ gender stereotypes on interpreting and reacting to ironic criticism in conversation. To this end, we designed two experiments gathering participants’ responses to the same ironic utterances voiced both by women and by men in control and gender stereotype activation conditions. Results of the first experiment showed that women tended to use irony significantly more often when responding to a man than to another woman. The second, ongoing experiment will additionally examine participants’ response times and total time of utterance in respect to their addressee’s gender. The results are discussed with regard to the social comparison theory (Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987) and the linguistic intergroup bias theory (Wigboldus & Douglas, 2007).

scholarly journals Gender Differences in the Speech Events of Kurdistan Parliament

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-94
Author(s):  
Dlvin Abdullah Sadiq ◽  
Salam Nihma Hakeem
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
The Social ◽  
Speech Events

This study tackles the differences between male and female MPs’ language in Kurdistan Parliament and the reasons behind such differences. The study investigates the extent and the type of gender differences between male and female MPs in Kurdistan and how these differences may lead to misunderstandings while debating. . In addition, the study highlights the MPs’ perspective on gender stereotypes and how such perspectives may affect their interactions. A quantitative method has been used to analyze the data of the study. First, an ethnographic description of Kurdistan Parliament according to Hymes's speaking framework was given, focusing on the setting, the participants and the act sequence. Second, a questionnaire was prepared as the data collection tool of the study. Based on the analysis of the collected data, it was found out that both male and female MPs strongly agreed that gender differences in language use could lead to misunderstandings. Moreover, MPs confirmed that the Kurdish society is patriarchal, and this leads to male dominance in most of the social interactions including parliamentary debates.

Clinton stated, Trump exclaimed!

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea McDonnell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Linguistic Style

Abstract This study examines tweets posted by candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the weeks preceding the 2016 presidential debates in an effort to assess the ways in which the candidates’ language use either conformed to or refuted gender stereotypes. Analysis of 490 tweets (724 sentences) suggests that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton used language in ways that were gender counterstereotypic. Clinton’s tweets contained a significantly greater number of statements and directives, suggesting that the candidate adopted a more masculine linguistic style, but also a greater number of cooperative words, which are stereotypically associated with feminine speech. Trump’s tweets contained a significantly greater number of exclamations, but fewer statements and directives than Clinton, thus defying masculine linguistic stereotypes. The implications of these findings on candidates’ political self-presentation are discussed.

Creating meso-contexts: The functions of metapragmatic expressions in argumentative TV talk shows

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Liu ◽  
Yongping Ran
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Tv Talk Show

AbstractMetapragmatic expressions (MPEs) show the speaker’s reflexive awareness of language use. Drawing on an argumentative TV talk show, this article explores the functions of MPEs in the host’s utterances from the sociocognitive approach (SCA). It argues that MPEs are employed to create “meso-contexts” so as to ensure the progression of the interactions as intended. The data analysis indicates that different types of MPEs activate prior contexts conventionally tied to them, and an interplay between prior contexts and emergent actual situations results in the construction of meso-contexts, which adjust the situational salience of relevant senses to direct the ongoing of interaction.

I have nothing to hide: The language of Ilongot oratory

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Rosaldo
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Interaction ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Category Labels ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
Public Character ◽  
Self Reference

ABSTRACTThe Ilongots of the northern Philippines traditionally value a speech style, ‘crooked language,’ rich in art, wit, and indirection, in certain situations. Purun ‘oratory’, both as event and speech style, is one of these. A brideprice meeting is recounted and examined in detail. Unique features of oratory, in contrast to everyday verbal interaction, depend on its public character, as a scheduled event with large audience (rather than special setting, personnel or ritual), and as having the purpose of achieving explicit, formal understanding and agreement. The special features of oratory include body-motion; category labels for self-reference; degree of use of deferential, self-deprecating, and qualifying phrases and terms; degree of use of metalinguistic terms generally; and rhythms. Degree of use of these features may vary in the course of the event. Acculturation has brought about conflict with the preference of newly educated and missionized Ilongots for ‘straight speech’. In effect, the indirect ‘crooked’ speech style is linked with indigenous egalitarian norms, while the public use of ‘straight speech’ is linked with externally imposed authoritarian relationships. (Speech styles and social structure; public performance everyday interaction; discourse devices; metalinguistic concepts and devices; conflict of speech norms; social change; Northern Luzon, Philippines: Malayo-Polynesian.)

scholarly journals GAYA KOMUNIKASI JOKOWI DALAM PROGRAM KARTU INDONESIA PINTAR

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Jhoshella
Keyword(s):  
Smart Card ◽  
The State ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method

<p>A leader of the State must have full authority and modality. However, Jokowi during his<br />leadership has a unique and different characteristic of communication, especially the<br />way in distribution of Indonesian smart card which is called Kartu Indonesia Pintar<br />that he created to overcome the problem of education.<br />The purpose of this research is to know the real communication style of our Country<br />leader Jokowi, from the perspective of rhetoric and analyzed from three existing<br />rhetorical evidence namely ethos, pathos and logos. It does not stop there, then it will<br />be analyzed with six communication styles.<br />This research was conducted by using qualitative descriptive method seen from a video<br />of Jokowi distributing Kartu Indonesia Pintar at SMKN 3 Kupang. This study uses<br />tradition and theory of rhetoric and public communication. The findings of this study<br />show that the three rhetorical evidence is in Jokowi and two-way communication style<br />is very attached to Jokowi's self.<br /><strong>Keywords: Jokowi, Rhetoric, Communication Style, Kartu Indonesia Pintar</strong></p>

Chairperson or chairman? – A study of Chinese EFL teachers’ gender inclusivity

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-49
Author(s):  
Jackie F.K. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Word Structure ◽  
Sexist Language ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Gender Role Development ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Generic Pronouns ◽  
Biased Language ◽  
Selection Of

Given the potential influence of teachers’ linguistic practice on children’s language use and gender role development, the present study seeks to examine the extent of linguistic discrimination present in teachers’ language. A total of 215 Chinese EFL teachers were invited to participate in the survey, which included a series of elicitation tests on their selection of English words for occupational titles, and the choice of generic pronouns anaphoric to people of unknown gender. The findings revealed that, while gender-biased language is still widely used, non-sexist linguistic reform has had an impact on Chinese EFL teachers, some of whom have expressed a concern with regard to avoiding sexist language. The study also found that choice of generic pronouns co-varied with such factors as semantic meaning, word structure and the gender stereotypes associated with particular occupations.

Examining the quality of mobile-assisted, video-making task outcomes: The role of proficiency, narrative ability, digital literacy, and motivation

2021 ◽  
pp. 136216882110479
Author(s):  
Sanghee Kang ◽  
YouJin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Language Use ◽  
First Language ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Predicting Factors ◽  
Narrative Ability ◽  
And Task

Although increasing evidence has demonstrated the benefits of mobile technology in diverse aspects of language learning, research on the use of mobiles in task-based instruction has been scarce. Particularly, there has been little research directly investigating predictors of the quality of mobile-assisted, video-making tasks. To fill the gap and contribute to the area of emerging technology-mediated, task-based language teaching, the current study examined predicting factors of the quality of digital-video-making task outcomes. Forty-eight Korean high school students completed a digital-video-making task using a mobile application called KineMaster. Students created a self-introduction storytelling video focusing on their experiences of success or failure in their life. To examine predicting factors (English writing proficiency, first language narrative ability, digital literacy, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation), multiple data sources were gathered: timed argumentative English essays and Korean writing samples on the same narrative topic, a digital literacy questionnaire, and a motivation survey. For data analyses, the quality of the digital-video-making task outcome was scored using an analytic rubric assessing the use of multi-modes, language use, and task fulfillment. Students’ English and Korean narrative essays were rated for English writing proficiency and first language narrative ability, respectively. Digital literacy and motivation questionnaires were analysed quantitatively, and the composite scores were included in statistical models. Multiple regression models were created to investigate which factors predicted the quality of the digital-video-making task outcome. The results showed that English writing proficiency and first language narrative ability significantly predicted the quality of language use and task fulfillment. The findings shed light on mobile-assisted task performance in foreign language classrooms.

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