Stereotyping
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The Disney Discussion Case
​(in English)


One of our prime target groups have been language teachers. Most teacher training programs for this group will include course modules in sociolinguistics, where gender and language normally constitutes one subject touched upon. The following case deals with aspects related to conversational styles, more specifically collaborative vs. competitive styles. The case was contextualised as a conversation over Skype (in order to motivate a reduction of sound quality needed to ‘camouflage’ some of the bi-effects of the pitch manipulations) between two researchers discussing an article about language and gender roles in Disney Princess movies. Respondents were asked to evaluate the language performance of one of the participants on variables that included ‘competitive features such as taking up floor space, interrupting, being contradictive, arguing forcefully, as well as more collaborative features such as signalling interest, being supportive, being sympathetic etc. Note that all material is in English. See script below.
disney_script.pdf
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Recording and Morphing
Before recording the scripts, we first trialed a number of voices to see which responded best to voice morphing. For more details of the morphing method see methods.
Version A: Female professor
Version B: Male professor

Presenting and Conducting the Case
This case was contextualised as an exercise in 

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Want to try?
If you want to try out the case with your own class use QR-code is link below for a ready package.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RKRTYL9

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Note! Contact [email protected]  if you want to do this with a group so that we can set up a specific group for you and give you access to the results.


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Link to post-survey. Please let participants answer this after the seminar discussion!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R7N92JX

Example of debriefing presentation
disney_debrief
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Some Results from Previous Trials
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All in all we had 173 students participating in the trials. In Sweden. Groups have included language students, teacher trainees and active teachers.
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​Figure 1. Swedish responses


The stereotypes that emerged from the awareness raising activities in Sweden showed that there were tendencies for respondents who listened to the male version to give higher scores on conversational features associated with competitive conversational styles (taking space, interrupting, contradicting etc.), while respondents who listened to the female version tended to score higher on features associated with collaborative conversational styles (being supportive, signalling interest and not taking too much space). The results are summarised in Figure 1 above. It seems that respondents in particular focussed on, and noted, aspects that were associated with male behaviour when listening to the male version and vice versa.  ​
The trials from te Seychelles
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​Figure 2. The results from the Seychelles showed...


However, the differences in response patterns can be explained.
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Figure 3. Linguistic gender stereotypes - Seychelles Sweden


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  • Home
    • Project description RAVE
    • Project description C-RAVE
  • Method
    • Case Production >
      • Contextualizing a Case
      • Recording & Voice Morphing
      • Other manipulation methods
      • Packaging
    • Response >
      • Perception Test
      • Pre-test/Post-test
    • Debriefing
  • Open Access Cases
    • Custody case
    • Youth language case
    • Indian vs British English
    • Disney discussion case
    • Personality factors case
    • Apology case
    • Reprimand case
    • Gender and leadership Scene 1
    • Gender and leadership Scene 2
    • Various material
  • Publications
    • Conference >
      • Keynote Speakers
      • Parallel Sessions: Wednesday
      • Parallel Sessions: Thursday
      • Symposium summary
  • Extra resources
    • Gender & Sexuality
    • Race & Ethnicity
    • Other Resources
  • About Us