Blog #6-Cooperation and Competition Across Girls' Play Activities

I think that most people see these distinctions when you observe boys at play and then when you observe girls at play. I know that I notice the differences. Boys' are much more aggressive and their tones show more aggression. Girls' are much more soft-soften and try to make everyone feel comfortable.

Girls tend to ask someone to do something, where boys will command for someone to do something. I found it interesting that when a girl is acting as a "mother" she is more "commanding" in her tone. She will then boss someone that is suppose to be younger around. It's so interesting to watch this because this is what they have observed in their everyday life, so they are acting it out just the way they see it.

Blog #5- "Kings are Royaler Than Queens": Language and Socialization

Okay this article very interesting to me. I guess I never really thought about how many times we use the word "he" or the word "she". I do find myself using "he" to describe something even if I do not know it's gender. I remember playing outside with my little cousin Ryan, who is 3, and we where looking at some bugs. I remember saying to Ryan, "that little guy is really fast!" What I am trying to say is that I used the word "he" even though I do not know what the gender of the bug was. From this point on am going to try and remember this article and remind myself about the way we use these words.

Jespersen

Well I am not sure even what to say about this article. Yes, it is a little dated. Yes, I believe that women are treated more equally then before. I feel as though Jespersen's tone was also quite negative in the section "General Charactertics." He brought in a lot of different studies with a lot of different names to help his point get across. I feel as though he was very one sided an example would be when he said, "....women on the other hand, had a number of domestic occupations which did not claim such an enormous output of spasmodic energy."

Does he really think that just because the women stayed home and took care of everything around the house she would have just as much energy as when she woke up in the morning? Apparently, he is only thinking about how men go out and work and their work means much more than a women's work at home.

"Women's Language" or "Powerless Language"

After reading this article I find the use of both of the terms very interesting. To say that you use "Women's Language" makes you seem a certain way, like you are the average American women. You live in a more traditional environment compared to living in a society where you go out in the working world. This also goes for men. There are many more "dads" who stay home while the "moms" are working outside of the home.

Today's times, I think, generate more people who are educated to speak with more power regardless of how they live. If you are a homemaker than you probably speak using both patterns, depending on who your audience is and vice versa. (Same goes for men as well).

Blog #2- Girl Talk/Boy Talk: Sex Differences in Adolescent Speech

After reading this article, I found myself shaking my head and laughing at some of the points in this article. I feel like we see this a lot in everyday life. I feel as though girls' are somewhat "expected" to be more respectful and responsible then boys'. It's okay for "boys'" to swear or talk disrespectful when it comes to speaking with someone who is older than them.

I feel as though this difference is from our society..girls are expected to be "lady like" while boys' can do as they please and get away with it. This may not be true in all circumstances but I do feel as though boys' can be tough and get into trouble but if a girl gets into trouble or starts fights then she is in the wrong. I guess it is more frown upon in our society.

Blog #1- Yanyuwa: 'Men speak one way, women speak another'

Ok, so I'm not use to doing this type of stuff, so please bare with me until I become a little more comfortable with these reflections.

After reading this article I was very fascinated by the way the children were raised and how there language would have to change (depending on their gender). I could only imagine how difficult it would be to learn a certain language from birth till adolescence, and then if you were male you would have to learn how to speak using the male dialect. It must be very confusing for the young men to have to go through this when they are also going through many other things. It is also interesting to learn how they don't know why they speak two different languages..