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Muted Group Theory.

Muted Group Theory. (MGT). My Definition. Muted group applies to any group or person who have/has little power, and have/has a difficult time voicing their viewpoint’s, and stances because they do not know how to articulate their thoughts to the dominate group. Origins.

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Muted Group Theory.

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  1. Muted Group Theory. (MGT)

  2. My Definition • Muted group applies to any group or person who have/has little power, and have/has a difficult time voicing their viewpoint’s, and stances because they do not know how to articulate their thoughts to the dominate group.

  3. Origins Edwin and Shirley Ardener 1975

  4. Contributor’s Mark Orbe 1998 CherisKaramarae 1981

  5. MTG 3 Assumptions (OregonState.edu) 1 Men and women perceive the world differently because they have different perception shaping experiences. Those different experiences are a result of men and women performing different tasks in society.

  6. 2 Men enact their power politically, perpetuating their power and suppressing women's ideas and meanings from gaining public acceptance. Women must convert their unique ideas, experiences, and meanings into male language in order to be heard.

  7. Hypotheses of woman’s communication skill • Women have a more difficult time expressing themselves than men. • Women understand what men mean more easily than men understand what women mean. • Women communicate with each other using media not accepted by the dominant male communicators. • Women are less satisfied with communication than are men. • Women are not likely to create new words, but sometimes do so to create meanings special and unique to women.

  8. Dominate Group • European American • Male • Heterosexual • Able-bodied • Youthful • Middle and Upper Class • Christian

  9. Muted Groups • African Americans • Gays and Lesbians • Elderly • Lower Class • Disabled People • Non-Christians • Asian Americans

  10. Process of Silencing • Ridicule • Ritual • Control • Interruptions • Harassment

  11. Devil Wears Prada

  12. The Resistance Strategies

  13. Naming the Strategies of Silencing • Reclaim, Elevate, Celebrate “trivial” Discourse • Creating New and More Representative Language.

  14. Arguments • Engages in Essentialism • Exaggeration that no women speak out • Has not been sufficiently integrated into empirical research • Assumptions have not been updated

  15. Works Cited • West, Richard, & Turner, Lynn H., Introducing Communication Theory Analysis and Application, McGraw-Hill, 2010 pages 483 – 500. • Oregon State, Muted Group Theory, Oregonstate.edu, Web, 17 April 2014. • The Devil Wears Prada; Dir. Frankel, David; Pre. Streep, Meryl; Hathaway, Anne; 20th Century Fox; 2006; Film

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