ANT329H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paralanguage, Tag Question, George Lakoff
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Language, gender, and power structure (1) - robin. Readings: lakoff - language and woman"s place , language in society ii. We are governed by the language as much as we govern it. Then we can use our linguistic behavior as a diagnostic of our hidden feelings about things . About gender-inequality : two ways, taught to use language, general language use treats them. Taught to seek in a certain way which will makes people able to judge her unable to express herself once grown-up. These two choices which a woman has - to be less than a woman or less than a person - are highly painful . Men tend to relegate to women things that are not of concern to them, or do not involve their egos . Men"s language is increasingly being used by women, but women"s language is not being adopted by men (language of the favored group).
