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  2. Doing gender - Wikipedia

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    The specific term "doing gender" was used in Candace West and Don Zimmerman's article by the same title, originally written in 1977 but not published until 1987. [2] In the article, West and Zimmerman illustrate that gender is performed in interactions, and that behaviors are assessed based on socially accepted conceptions of gender.

  3. Sex–gender distinction - Wikipedia

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    West and Zimmerman maintain that the sex category is "established and sustained by the socially required identificatory displays that proclaim one's membership in one or the other category". [73]: 127 Gender is the performance of attitudes and actions that are considered socially acceptable for one's sex category. [73]: 127

  4. List of female lieutenant governors in the United States

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    Women have been elected lieutenant governor in 40 of the 50 states. The states that have the position of lieutenant governor and have not yet elected a woman are Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and West Virginia. The states that do not have the position of lieutenant governor are Arizona, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and Wyoming. The ...

  5. Language and gender - Wikipedia

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    Research into the many possible relationships, intersections and tensions between language and gender is diverse. It crosses disciplinary boundaries, and, as a bare minimum, could be said to encompass work notionally housed within applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, cultural studies, feminist media studies, feminist psychology, gender studies, interactional ...

  6. Turn-taking - Wikipedia

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    In conversation analysis, turn-taking organization describes the sets of practices speakers use to construct and allocate turns. [1] The organization of turn-taking was first explored as a part of conversation analysis by Harvey Sacks with Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and their model is still generally accepted in the field.

  7. Interruption (speech) - Wikipedia

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    An interruption is a speech action when one person breaks in to interject while another person is talking.Linguists, social psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists are among the social scientists who have studied and identified patterns of interruption that may differ by gender, social status, race/ethnicity, culture, and political orientation.

  8. List of centenarians (politicians and civil servants) - Wikipedia

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    American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives [citation needed] Mordechai Bibi: 1922–2023: 100: Iraqi-born Israeli politician [38] Howard Bier: 1919– 105: American politician, member (1959–1972) and speaker (1971–1972) of the North Dakota House of Representatives [39] Louis Bisdee: 1910–2010: 100

  9. Frank Smith (psycholinguist) - Wikipedia

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    Frank Smith was born in England in 1928 and lived on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.He started out as reporter and editor for several media publications in Europe and Australia before commencing undergraduate studies at the University of Western Australia.