Go Bananas - 12 September 2022
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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Is He Addressing You by Your First Name?
I've only noticed it with me, or or bos and who bossis female. And also, my son's girl friend says that she's noticed one of her professors used to do that too. So i'm wondering if or being overly sensitive, or if, and you know, they may not even be awareof what they're doing. The charitable part of us thinks about the linguistic discourse studies that show that people addressing people by their first names sometimes can introduce a power differential that is indeed taken as condescending. That's how it felt.
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