This document presents three explanations for why women use more standard linguistic forms than men: 1) The social status explanation - women are more status-conscious and use standard forms to signal their social class or status. A study found women in paid employment used more standard forms than women who stayed home. 2) Women's role as guardians of society's values - Some believe women are expected to uphold "better" social behaviors. An early settler encouraged men to behave as if a lady statue was watching to remain civilized. 3) Subordinate groups must be polite - Women may use standard forms more to protect their own face and the faces of those they interact with, as a subordinate group.

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EXPLAINATION OF WOMEN’S LINGUISTIC BEHAVIOUR
Created by :
Ayu Melati 2010.1250.1177

2. Why can’t woman be
more like a man ?
Why do women use more
standard forms than men ?
EXPLAINATION OF WOMEN’S LINGUISTIC BEHAVIOUR

3. The Social Status Explaination
Some linguists have suggested that women use more standard
speech forms than men because they are more status-conscious than
men.The claim is that women are more aware of the fact that the
way they speak signals their social class background or social
status in the community. So, women use more standard speech forms
as a way of claiming such status.

4. For example :
An American study compared the speech of wowen in service
occuptios,working in garages and hotels, for instance, with the speech of
women working in home.Those in paid employment used more
standard forms than those working in the home. In the course of their
jobs, standard forms , and this interaction had its effect on their own
usage. By contrast , the women who stayed home interacted mainly with
each other , and this reinforced their preference for vernacular forms.

5. Woman’s Role as Guardian of Society ‘s Values
A woman’s place is in the home
For example :
A second explanation for the fact that women use more standard forms than men points to the way
society tends to expect ‘better ‘ behaviour from than men may be relevant in some social groups , but it
is certainly not true for all.
Mrs Hanna , an early New Zealand settler , believed in the civilising influence of
women. When two young men she knew were about to take up a sheep station in
Canterburry in 1852, she warned them that they would become ‘ semi-barbarous’.
She begged them to have a lay figure of a lady, carefully draped , set up in their
usual sitting room , and always behave before it as if it was their mother.

6. Subordinate Groups must be Polite
For example :
You are an intolerable bore Mr. Brown. Why don’t you simply shut up and let
someone speak who has more interesting ideas to contribute said Lord Huntly in
the well-educated and cultured accent of the over privileged.
A third explanation which has been purposed for women’s use of more standard forms is
that people who are subordinate must be polite and women’s greter use of standard forms
may relate not only to their own face-protection needs, but also to those of the people they
are talking to, is more promising.