#language ideologies
*pretends to be surprised*
I believe this person is referring to the research review done by Deborah James and Janice Drakich, which was published in 1993 but still couldn’t stop the myth while other popular linguists like Deborah Tannen kept insisting on “gender = speech patterns” instead of the reality, which is closer to “social power [which can include gender, race, class, etc] = valuation or devaluation of speech patterns”.
A review of 56 studies conducted by linguistics researcher Deborah James and social psychologist Janice Drakich found only two studies showing that women talked more than men, while 34 studies found men talked more than women. Sixteen of the studies found they talked the same and four showed no clear pattern.
I’ve been a Tannen apologist before, because linguists are still taught that there is such a thing as masculine and feminine speech ideologies. But then I paid attention to the real world!
