LING 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Robin Lakoff, Flight Attendant, Language Development
25 Apr 2019
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Sex is the biological, gender is the identity people evolve from the basis of their sex, set of norms thought to be appropriate for each sex. It is now noted that gender identities are more complex than the dichotomy of male/female. More studies done on gay male speech vs lesbian speech, and more of a stereotype as well. How does language affect how people think vs how does our society affect language. Inequalities encoded in the grammar of our language. Words have undergone kind of an opposite change. Secretary used to be a male term (secretary of the treasury) Became gendered female as women entered the workforce in offices. Use of male pronoun when group is mixed gendered. Kids separate into groups in elementary school, reintegrate around high school. Women have traditionally higher impact on lang acquisition for children. 3rd party care (95% daycare workers women) Children more around women, how do boys learn to talk like men? .
