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Gender and Language. Gender-specific speech in the English language

Author : Nathalie CupCakey
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656405107
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Language. Gender-specific speech in the English language written by Nathalie CupCakey and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 78/100, University of Southampton, language: English, abstract: Gender-specific speech in the English language Apparently women talk three times as much as men. This is something one half of the population has long suspected while the other half always vocally denied it. But what about the contents? Men and women are also believed to be unable to communicate, so do they really share the same language? Some say that this is not just a myth. It is a common belief that there lies truth in these legends of having different ways of expressing one's wants and needs. People have always been interested in the topic but since the late 20s century literature on the topic has started blooming. It is not only books that kept appearing and ended up on the best-seller lists, but also seminars were advertised, as well as telephone helplines and even dating websites are not a taboo anymore, all of them with the common aim of helping genders sort out their misunderstandings. In this paper I will focus on aspects and more precisely the differences in male and female talk to show how analysing speech acts can reveal hidden truths about the genders and their communication habits. As Deborah Cameron states in her book (2009) it is still a matter of research to know where the origins of language lie. At the same time arises the question of gender-related particularities within the language used by both sex. The latter also entails various theorists to argue upon the origin of language as originated in men (case bolstered by e.g. Crow,1998), while others believe that it first appeared in women (e.g. Dunbar,1996). Cameron also explains how language serves the purpose of creating and maintaining the cohesion within a social group. Therefore she refers to Robin Dunbar, who says that linguistic exchange plays the same role as grooming does for primates. With the increase in size of pre-historic human groups, language became necessary in order to exchange information and improve relationships between the members of the group. Language was born. Henceforth throughout history, language has evolved and can be analysed according to two categories: one which focusses on male language, the other one on female language.

An Introduction to the Theory of Gender-neutral Language

Author : Raoul Festante
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638763226
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to the Theory of Gender-neutral Language by : Raoul Festante

Download or read book An Introduction to the Theory of Gender-neutral Language written by Raoul Festante and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Hannover, course: Language and Gender, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the following paper I will deal with the concept of gender-neutral language. I will begin by looking at certain false generics that are commonly used in English Language and consider the position of gender-neutral language theorists to these false generics. Due to the fact, that the gender-neutral language theory offers very general recommendations and guidelines i felt difficult to do a corpus analysis. That is why I tried to concentrate only on the main positions of gender-neutral language theory and focus on central issues within he scope of this approach. I concentrate on two particular false generics that are at the focus of gender -neutral language theory; "Man" as a generic form used in the English language to define male and female and the ambiguous use of the pronoun "He" in contexts where both sexes are to be addressed. In the second and third chapter I will take a closer look at these false generics and exemplify how they create misunderstanding and actually promote a male centred perception. In the fourth chapter I will deal with the guidelines and recommendations of language planners and gender-neutral language theorists and work out their main positions. It will be argued, that language change is not an easy undertaking but requires perseverance and consistent argumentation. The biggest challenge for language planners who want to implement genderneutral language is perhaps the persistent resistance towards the understanding, that gender - neutral language is not an issue concerning only feminists. I will conclude by evaluating the gender-neutral language theory in terms of its practicability and give a personal opinion on the approach.

Language and Gender

Author : Mary Talbot
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745646042
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Language and Gender written by Mary Talbot and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an up-to-date textbook in the area of language and gender. Mary Talbot examines the language used by women and men in a variety of speech situations and genres.

Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective

Author : Susan U. Philips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521338073
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective by : Susan U. Philips

Download or read book Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective written by Susan U. Philips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of gender differences in language use have been undertaken from exclusively either a sociocultural or a biological perspective. By contrast, this innovative volume places the analysis of language and gender in the context of a biocultural framework, examining both cultural and biological sources of gender differences in language, as well as the interaction between them. The first two parts of the volume on cultural variation in gender-differentiated language use, comparing Western English-speaking societies with societies elsewhere in the world. The essays are distinguished by an emphasis on the syntax, rather than style or strategy, of gender-differentiated forms of discourse but also often carry out the same forms differently through different choices of language form. These gender differences are shown to be socially organized, although the essays in Part I also raise the possibility that some cross-cultural similarities in the ways males and females differentially use language may be related to sex-based differences in physical and emotional makeup. Part III examines the relationship between language and the brain and shows that although there are differences between the ways males and females process language in the brain, these do not yield any differences in linguistic competence or language use. Taken as a whole, the essays reveal a great diversity in the cultural construction of gender through language and explicity show that while there is some evidence of the influence of biologically based sex differences on the language of women and men, the influence of culture is far greater, and gender differences in language use are better accounted for in terms of culture than in terms of biology. The collection will appeal widely to anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, and other concerned with the understanding of gender roles.

Gender in Language

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230649665
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Gender in Language written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Gender-neutral language, Grammatical gender, Gender neutrality in English, Gender-neutral pronoun, Gender-specific pronoun, Gender-neutrality in languages with grammatical gender, Gender of connectors and fasteners, Gender-neutrality in genderless languages, Noun class, Gender reform in Esperanto, Generic antecedent, Gender differences in spoken Japanese, Animacy, Gender-specific job title, Gender in Dutch grammar, Unisex name, Epicenity, Gender in English, Allocutive agreement, Synesis, Mating connection. Excerpt: Grammatical gender is defined linguistically as a system of classes of nouns which trigger specific types of inflections in associated words, such as adjectives, verbs and others. For a system of noun classes to be a gender system, every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be very few that belong to several classes at once. If a language distinguishes between genders, in order to correctly decline any noun and any modifier or other type of word affected by that noun, one must identify the gender of the noun. While Old English (Anglo-Saxon) had grammatical gender, Modern English is normally described as lacking grammatical gender. The linguistic notion of grammatical gender is distinguished from the biological and social notion of natural gender, although they interact closely in many languages. Both grammatical and natural gender can have linguistic effects in a given language. Grammatical gender is typical of Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Northeast Caucasian, and several Australian aboriginal languages such as Dyirbal. It is usually absent in the Altaic, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Uralic and most Native American language families. The Niger-Congo languages typically have an extensive system of noun classes, which can be grouped into several grammatical genders (Corbett, ..

The Handbook of Language and Gender

Author : Janet Holmes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756705
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Language and Gender written by Janet Holmes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Language and Gender is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that examines the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk. Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and stimulating picture of the field for students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines Features data and case studies from interactions in different social contexts and from a range of different communities

Gender and Language

Author : Alexandra Köhler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 364018565X
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Language by : Alexandra Köhler

Download or read book Gender and Language written by Alexandra Köhler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: Sehr gut, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, course: Seminar, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: For many years linguists and sociologists have studied the patterns of communication between the genders. Language differences emerge at a very early stage of learning to speak. These differences are passed on to the young by the men and women who are around them. As children learn the language of gender differences they also learn the culturally proscribed behavior that is appropriate to their sex. In this paper I want to explain that women and men have different conversational styles. Language differences begin to emerge at the earliest stages of speech development. In this paper I will identify these differences and explain them. The paper is organized in the following manner: The concept of language socialization will be explained. I will also discuss the impact that one's peer group has on language development. Next I will examine the way in which men and women communicate. Following this discussion of gender differences I will focus on the language patterns that women use. After the discussion of women's speech I will contrast the manner in which men communicate and how these differences may result in misunderstandings between the genders. Finally I will distinguish between "saying and implying". The focus will be what people actually say as they talk to each other.

Language and Woman's Place

Author : Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195167589
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Language and Woman's Place written by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between gender and language, this revised edition includes an introduction and annotations by the author in which she reflects on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises.

Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents

Author : Costin-Valentin Oancea
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443812862
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents by : Costin-Valentin Oancea

Download or read book Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents written by Costin-Valentin Oancea and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a synchronic sociolinguistic analysis of gender-related variation in the speech of English and Romanian adolescents. It is motivated by the belief that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that a comprehensive understanding of language must include a grasp of the nature and function of variation. The book analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, thus representing a major contribution to the study of language in its social context.

Gender Across Languages

Author : Marlis Hellinger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726886X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender Across Languages by : Marlis Hellinger

Download or read book Gender Across Languages written by Marlis Hellinger and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages whose gendered structures have received little or no academic attention in the past. Again, the collection includes a broad spectrum of languages: It contains languages with and without grammatical gender, a language with noun classification and a classifier language; larger national languages as well as smaller languages with minority status; and, of course, members of diverse language families, i.e. Indo-European as well as Finno-Ugrian, Iroquois, Tai-Kadai and Niger-Congo. The volume illustrates the tremendous variation found in the area of gender representation across languages. At the same time, it will provide the much-needed material required for an explicitly comparative approach to linguistic manifestations of gender.

Language and Gender

Author : Cate Poynton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Gender written by Cate Poynton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the use of language to actively create difference and inequality between men and women. Stressing the necessity of looking beyond "sexist" words for an understanding of how language creates difference, Poynton pays particular attention to grammatical and textual structure in both speech and writing. She contends that girls and boys become different kinds of people in the process of learning to use language differently in achieving different kinds of social goals.

Language, Gender, and Society

Author : Barrie Thorne
Publisher : Newbury House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Language, Gender, and Society written by Barrie Thorne and published by Newbury House Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gender-Specific Language in the Presentation of Political Talk Shows

Author : Corinna Colette Vellnagel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 364095548X
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender-Specific Language in the Presentation of Political Talk Shows by : Corinna Colette Vellnagel

Download or read book Gender-Specific Language in the Presentation of Political Talk Shows written by Corinna Colette Vellnagel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: Good, The University of Surrey, language: English, comment: Interpersonal Communication, abstract: Men and women do not only look different, they literally are different from scratch (Gates: 2008). But does this difference also apply to language and talk? 'Women talk more than men ' - Everybody has already heard of the myth that women are more talkative and use 20,000 words a day, whereas men get by with just 7,000 (Talbot: 2003). However, this has been contradicted by the University of Texas - there is no gender that is more talkative. Moreover, according to the studies, women speak on average 16,215 words and men 15,669 words a day (Mehl et al.: 2007). Language starts in people's heads, but since the areas and sizes of the different brain parts in women's and men's heads are completely unequal it nevertheless is logical that male and female language differs. A female brain has its own relatively big 'Gossip Lobe', whereas the male brain has only got a somewhat smaller 'Guy Talk' area (see Fig. 1). According to the amount of research that has been conducted in this field there are major differences between male and female language. Tabloid newspapers and talk shows tend to suggest that women swear less than men or that women are the more gossipy gender. These assumptions are internalised by the vast majority of the population, but are they really true (Coates: 2004)? Or is all that nonsense? The German publishing group Langenscheidt published a dictionary with the title 'German-Woman / Woman-German' which has especially been created for men so that they can interpret women's messages correctly. This again shows that male and female language varies.

Gender Across Languages

Author : Marlis Hellinger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027218439
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Gender Across Languages written by Marlis Hellinger and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on Gender across Languages, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and the previous two volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.

Language and Gender

Author : Penelope Eckert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107029058
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Language and Gender written by Penelope Eckert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and restructured new edition of a textbook for courses in language and gender which is accessible to non-linguists.

Language and Gender - Is There a Gender Gap in Language?

Author : Bettina Hanke
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656068836
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Book Synopsis Language and Gender - Is There a Gender Gap in Language? by : Bettina Hanke

Download or read book Language and Gender - Is There a Gender Gap in Language? written by Bettina Hanke and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0 (B), Humboldt-University of Berlin (Anglistics/American Studies), course: The linguistic situation in the USA, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The belief in sex differences has a long tradition. Researches of social scientists have helped to create and confirm this belief and have helped to develop theories which stress differences rather than similarities. Robin Lakoff was one of the first linguists who proposed that women ́s speech style is a powerless style. She introduced the term "women ́s language" which implies that women and men speak different languages. Lakoff and others have claimed that differences in male and female language have their source in early childhood socialisation. The assertiveness training movement which emerged in the 1970s was first established to help people who have communication problems and was later designed especially for women to solve their alleged problems of speech style and male-female communication. In the 1980s another approach gained popularity. The origins lie in the work of the linguist John Gumperz. The two-cultures approach maintains that communication between women and men is communication across cultures because the reasons for misunderstanding between them are similar to those of ethnic groups. More recent works of Elizabeth Aries and Mary Crawford challenge these approaches and demonstrate that similarities between men and women are far greater than differences. In this paper I want to discuss several approaches to gender differences and try to answer the questions whether there are differences in male-female communication and what the causes are for these differences.

Language and Sex

Author : Barrie Thorne
Publisher : Newbury House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Language and Sex written by Barrie Thorne and published by Newbury House. This book was released on 1975 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. 205-307: Sex differences in language, speech and nonverbal communication : an annotated bibliography / comp. by Nancy Henley and Barrie Thorne