Jenifer Lawrence response

The context of this text is Jennifer Lawrence angered by the discovery that she is earning less than her male co-workers. She talks about how she was a main character in the film but was not being paid equally to the males she acted along side. She talks about men being able to get what they want by asking but when she tried to do this she was turned down. She gives of a feeling of anger in the text due to the way she has been treated.

It is believed that males use more swear words when speaking, Jennifer uses a lot of swear words to push her outrage onto the reader. An example of this "Fuck that." This is more effective as it evokes a reaction out of the reader. This is because women stereotypically use empty adjectives and weak sentences that aren't to the point. This pushes Jennifer's point across even more as she comes across more 'masculine' which contrasts what is expected. She is also very to the point which is a stereotypically masculine trait. She talks about talking to someone who works for her "I spoke my mind and gave my opinion in a clear and no-bullshit way". This is seen as a masculine thing to do, to be concise and to the point. The reaction she gets from this goes to show how women and men can speak however they want, but if it's not socially accepted or the norm then they will not be treated equally. However Jennifer does use 'female' language in the text. She does not include a lot of humour which according to Lakoff  'women do not have a sense of humour'. She does make a few sarcastic comments, for example "I found out how much less I was being paid than the lucky people with dicks". This does have serious undertones and the rest of the text is mostly serious. Stereotypically if a male had written this he would have used humour to get his point across.

I agree with her conclusion that it is completely wrong for women to not be paid equally to men. It was right of her to question it with others and their reaction of acting as if she was being unreasonable was wrong. I agree it would have been responded to differently if it were a male querying the same situation. Like Cameron believes that gender is something you do not something you are, I agree. Jennifer proves this by using masculine language aspects rather than using empty adjectives and tag questions. 

Changing dialects.

In today's modern world we often discuss the development of technology and science. Something we do not often discuss is the development and changes in dialects and language. People who are not from England expect everyone here to speak with received pronunciation (posh) or cockney accents. This is definitely not the case anymore for many reasons.

Dialect leveling is a term used when local variation become less distinct and take on features of other dialects/sociolects. This has become common in recent years because of geographical mobility. This often because of peoples work or family living in different places. With everyone moving around all the time we mix with more people meaning that our dialects combine. This leads to peoples dialects not being from their place of origin. Another reason is social mobility As there has been a breakdown of the strict divides between social classes we now mix with all types of social classes and therefore our dialects combine. There are people who speak with RP and people who have rural dialects mixing daily.
Even if we do not have a large geographical mobility, our update in technology also leads us to being more open to other dialects. This can be through YouTube, Radio/TV shows,internet videos and music. By spending our time watching a lot of videos that contain different dialects we may begin to develop features of these dialects.
Do you sound more like your parents or friends? It is common for young people to pronounce words like their friends do and not how parents would. This is because there is now a pressure for young people to conform to  norms including linguistics. A lot of young peoples language develops from rap music where you can hear how the musician pronunciation of words and so they then use this themselves.
With all these ways of mixing with new people from different places our dialects often now do not link to our place of origin. We have a mixture of dialects and often change how we speak depending on who we are speaking to.