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Male Speaker Traits

Female Speaker Traits

*Demanding voice

*Deep voice

Boastful speech

Use swear words

*Dominating speech

*Loud speech

*Show anger rather

than conceal it

Straight to the point

*Militant speech

Use slang

*Authoritarian speech

*Forceful speech

Lounge, lean back

while talking

*Aggressive speech

Blunt speech

Sense of humor in speech

*Vocal characteristic

*Enunciate clearly

*High pitch

Use hands & face to

express ideas

Gossip

Concern for listener

*Gentle speech

*Fast speech

Talk about trivial topics

*Wide range in rate & pitch

*Friendly speech

*Talk a lot

Use many details

*Emotional speech

*Open, self-revealing speech

*Enthusiastic speech

Smile a lot when talking

Good grammar

*Polite speech

Gibberish

Ideal Speech

Cheris Kramer (1978) was interested in finding 2 things

1. Agreement of Ideal Speech

2. Gender differences

-Male Traits

-Female Traits

What's the use?

Discussion

Identify the characteristics of other people

-Gender, ethnicity, social class

Are there gender differences in vocalics?

  • What aspects of each singer's voice led you to believe he or she would appear in a particular way?
  • How did the singers' actual physical appearances compare to your initial perceptions?
  • What are some common gender stereotypes that relate to vocalics?

Activity

What are Vocalics?

References

Characteristics of a person's voice

-Volume

-Pitch

-Tone

-Articulation

-Rate

-Silence

Things to Consider...

1. Write down as many of the singer's vocal characteristics as you can.

2. Based on the singer's vocalics, what would you say the gender of the singer is?

Kramer, C. (1978). Women's and men's ratings of their own and ideal speech. Communication Quarterly, 2-11.

Moore, N., Hickson, M., Stacks, D. (2010). Nonverbal Communication. New York, NY: Oxford University University Press, Inc.

Murphy, M., & Ribarsky, E. (2013). Activities for teaching gender and sexuality in the university classroom. R&L Education.

Vocalics and Gender

Tori Rayner

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