8. Gender as a Sociolinguistic Variable: New Perspectives on Variation Studies
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Studies of gender-specific variation are often contradictory, depending on the author's implicit assumptions about sex and gender, the methodology, the samples used, etc. Thus, as Eckert and McConnell-Ginet (1992: 90) state, “women's language has been said to reflect their [our] conservativism, prestige consciousness, upward mobility, insecurity, deference, nurture, emotional expressivity, connectedness, sensitivity to others, solidarity. And men's language is heard as evincing their toughness, lack of affect, competitiveness, independence, competence, hierarchy, control.”
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