Women’s Language in Soap Operas:
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This paper is concerned with investigating Robin Lakoff’s claims about tentativeness in women’s language and the influence of media role models on reproducing gender stereotypes. The aim of this research project was to investigate representations of women’s language in German and Australian soap operas. The project focused on the frequency and the functions of sentence‐ prefacing disclaimers and sentence‐ending tag questions. The data consisted of female dialogues in several episodes of the Australian soap opera Home and Away and the German soap opera Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten. Questionnaires, forums and chat‐rooms were designed to obtain a general background regarding women’s identification with soap operas and their language. The key findings supported the hypothesis that although the features can be identified in both cultural contexts, they tended to act as boosters rather than hedging devices. The research project confirms empirical studies disproving tentativeness in women’s language.
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