Genderlects refers to linguistic gender differences in the United ...

[arivle123]

Genderlects refers to linguistic gender differences in the United States, where:
 
  a. women's speech tends to be cooperative in character.
  b. women engage in reporttalk, while men engage in rapporttalk..
  c. women emphasize establishing a place in the competitive social hierarchy.
  d. men tend to engage more often than women do in active listening..
  e. women tend to use more qualifiers than men in their speech, making it difficult to converse.

Question 2

Sexual asymmetry can be shown through the use of doublets, which:
 
  a. demonstrate the inequality of women compared to men in America.
  b. are pairs of words that have the same meaning, but one word is used by men and the other by women.
  c. are found in Standard American English.
  d. always vary in terms of loudness and aggressiveness.
  e. are words that are constructed of at least two other words and have a private meaning between men andwomen.

[amy.lauersdorf90]

Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

b

[arivle123]

TYSM

[marict]

Excellent