I have decided to continue with the idea of studying Deborah Tannen's Difference Theory for my language investigation coursework. This is because I found the research, transcribing and annotating interesting and insightful when I first attempted the language investigation. My next step is to choose which data I want to use and how I plan to select it. I need to also have a set question and hypothesis for my investigation. I predict that males will have adopted more of the female traits and vice versa. So both gender will use the traits more or less equally and won't be exclusive to one gender.
In terms of my data, I'm hoping to use cast interviews from the same television series so the language doesn't fluctuate. Although the speech may not be 100% spontaneous due to structured speech from interviewers, I think the interviewees will use natural speech. The formality will be very low, chatty and friendly so this will hopefully make the data I transcribe natural and spontaneous, adding to the reliability of my investigation.
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