My investigation

My investigation:

Dominance model-Zimmerman and West

I want to see whether Zimmerman and Wests Dominance model and how men are superior over woman can be challenged if the superior model is a woman stating her views on gender equality.

My research:

I am going to get women and men to listen and read the lyrics to Beyoncé song flawless and ask them about what they think about the message she is putting across and whether they agree

See if there is any difference between the opinions of men and women

Get them to listen to a cover of Beyoncé’s flawless (by a female) and see if their opinion changes as it isn’t Beyoncé singing it

If there is a difference I will be able to see that by Beyoncé being superior role model, affects people’s views on a topic.

If the results change, I will be able to see that the dominance model with the theory that men are superior over woman, influencing their language is incorrect in relation to women being able to be the superior role model and changing men and woman’s language and opinions.

How am I collecting my results :

I am going to have a set of questions I have previously created that I am going to ask my Participants and will have them written down in my phone. When I ask my participants I am going write down what they say into my phone underneath the question asked.

Variables:

My independent variables- the person singing the ‘Flawless’ song and the participants gender

My dependent variable- whether men and women’s language alter if the person singing about gender equality change from a superior women to a ‘normal’ women.

 

My Participants:

To make my investigation not about how opinions differ between the ages of females and males, I am going to use a male and female from the same age range.  

My brother and his girlfriend = in their teens

My mum and my uncle= in their 30s

My cousins = in their 20s

My Nan and grandad- in their 60s

 

 

Comparability:

I am going to be able to compare my results because I am going to be collecting data from females and males from the same age range. I will be able to compare the different opinions between the female and male from the same age group and the difference between the males and females as a whole. By comparing as a whole, I will get a wider range of results to see whether my hypothesis as well as Zimmerman and Wests theory is supported by my results. By comparing between the same age range I can also look to see whether my results differ between ages. If they do I will be able to tell whether Zimmerman and Wests theory relates more to a certain age group than others.

Ethics:

To make my research ethical, I will ask my participants if I am able to collect some date from them for my English coursework however I will not tell them what it is on and when I will collect the data. When I do collect my data, I will be collecting it on my phone so it does not make it obvious I am analyzing their language and will collect the results from the different singers singing the sonf on different days.

Deception- I am not lying to my participants due to my telling them it is for my English coursework

Consent- I have asked for their consent to collect some data

Withdraw- I am giving them the option to allow me to collect data from them allowing them the chance to withdraw. After I have collected my data I will also do a debrief and ask them if I am allowed to use my data for research.

Protection- To decrease the chance of any harm to my Participants, I am going to collect my results via a field experiment so my participants are in their own environment and will reduce psychological harm as they will not be put in any stress because I am going to relax my P’s via talking to them naturally for a while before I ask them about their opinion.

Confidentiality- After I have collected my data I will, debrief my P’s and ask them if I am allowed to use my data I have collected from them to do some closer analyzing .

Reliability:

My investigation is going to be reliable as I am going to be repeating my investigation in different age ranges which will give me a range of results that will reduce the effect of any anomalies. It is also going to be reliable because I am reducing the effect of observer paradox by telling my participants that I am collecting data but not when I am collecting it.

Word of Mouth Radio Broadcasts

Young Women as Linguistic Innovators

Post adolescent females lead language/linguistic change and is replicated in many different countries. People who speak Arabic  researched and found that men are behind in language and are more likely to use 'older' sounds. People speak the way they do to express identity, ambition a way of exerting authority status rejection -men has no motivation. Women pass on the way they speak to their children as they spend more time with the children in their early life, women also socialise and go out chatting more.

Social media-

new words that older people may not understand 'fleek' 'bae'

not the issue as everyone can coin words, more to do with how they perpetuate and get taken up from other generations.

LA has a change going on that a vocal feature known as 'vocal fry' is being used in young women at the full front and is young women using a creaky voice- nothing new change in progress?

Kim K uses this creaky voice when talking to Nick Grimeshaw at the end of her utterances.

This 'vocal fry' hasbeen around for along time and is used to seduce people and occurs in many languages.

why has it been picked up in LA? Is it due to reality stars like Kim K?

People in the USA have said that 'it sounds like hell' and that it 'may hurt womens job prospects and they wont get the job' . However language change is not always favoured and it is not just this vocal fry.

Women are a marked group and will attract a lot of attention via creaking.

giggling is also seen as attractive in young women and in the 1920's shrieking was seen as attractive.