Anthropology 2245F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Heteronormativity, Male Bonding, Language Ideology

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2245F/G
• Professor: Penessi

Document Summary

Language and identity: gender, sexual ori and age. Explain how language is used to construct gendered identities for self and others. Evaluate claims about the connections between language, gender, sexuality and identity. Recognize intersections of gender and age in linguistic practices. Cross-culturally 2-5 genders (depends on culture: e. g. 71 genders available to choose from on facebook many are just repeats of different ways to say it. Gender is distinct from biological sex, gender is distinct from sexual orientation. Gender in terms of how you feel which best represents you. Gender intersects with other characteristics: class, race/ethnicity, sexual ori, education, occupation, age, idea: a group of women of the same class, age, race etc. Will speak more like men who share those characteristics compared to women of other characteristics: not to say that men/women speak differently you have to look at men/women of the same variables. Grammatical gender: gender agreement subjects, objects, verb. Note: not every language marks gender: morphology.