Difference Model - Men
English Language: AQA A Level, topic 3.1.6
Difference Model - Male Communication
The difference model is concerned with the idea that men and women are simply inherently different. Linguists have looked at the way men talk to each other.
Kuiper
- Kuiper’s research details that men use more insults and expletives (swearing).
Pilkington
- Pilkington’s research looks at the way a ‘locker-room banter’ is created within all-male groups. He found that insults were part of this culture and created bonds.
Millett
- Kate Millett’s research states that 'the tone and ethos of men's house culture is sadistic, power-oriented, and latently homosexual, frequently narcissistic in its energy and motives'.