Lauren Waring's English Language Blog

Young women, give up the vocal fry and reclaim your strong female voice https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/24/vocal-fry-strong-female-voice

The packaging supports Lakoff's deficit model with the lack of capitalization throughout such as "look at that" at the very beginning of the paragraph. It is used here to contradict Lakoff's theory that women always use hyper correct grammar. The reason for the lack of correct grammar may be in order to present a more colloquial feel to seem less imperative, on the other hand it does support Lakoff's theory that women don't swear this is shown with the euphemistic word "blooming". However both of Lakoff's theory's are outdated.

https://debuk.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/the-pronominal-is-political/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hsbc-bank-transgender-customers-neutral-titles-mx-ind-mre-a7659686.html This article tells us about the bank HSBC's decsion to offer transgender people the option to have gender-neutral titles. There is are 10 different options including "Mx" and "Mre". This was revealed by  project manager Stuart Barette, who is trans himself, explaining the importance of offering the opportunity for customers to choose from a range of titles. This movement has taken a huge step towards making LGTB+ customers and employees feel respected and valued

http://emmahlanguageblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/janet-holmes.html In this extract Janet Holmes explains how the English language can be per sieved to be sexist towards women with examples like animal imagery that is derogatory to wards women but complimentary towards men, for example women are called "bitch" or "cow" and men are considered as "wolf" or "Stud". She also mentions how women are referred to as food such as "honey" or "tart".

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28582-scans-prove-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-male-or-female-brain/ This article, written by Jessica Hamzelou, writes about the new evidence that proves there is no such thing as a "male" or "female brain". It reveals that most people have a mix of male and female brain features and it also supports the idea that gender is non-binary. Anelis Kaiser from the University of Bern, Switzerland says, "This evidence that human brains cannot be categorised into two distinct classes is new, convincing, and somehow radical". To test the theory Dapna Joel, from Tel Aviv University in Israel, and her colleagues examining differences in brain scans taken from 1400 people aged between 13 and 8. They looked at shape and size in different areas of the brain and found averaged across many people, sex differences in brain structure do exist, but an individual brain is likely to be just that: individual, with a mix of features confi...

"Could u pls put my washing in the tumble dryer ?xx" This text's opening is straight to the point with no greeting or formality and ends with two kisses showing the relationship between me and the recipient being quite comfortable and friendly. I've put the beginning of the adjacency pair expecting a yes/no answer. The text message is informal and colloquial, this is shown by clippings such as "u" and"pls".