ANTHRO 33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Elinor Ochs, Linguistic Anthropology, Markedness
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Relationship between language and gender is not a simple mapping between linguistic form to social meaning of gender. Affect/affective stances = visible or assumed ways of embodying or performing emotions. Emotions and the way we display them are at least partially socially constructed. Partially understand gender meanings through certain functions of language. The various ways of mothering across cultures will have some effect on the way women as a. Images of women are indexically linked to images of mothering whole are viewed in that culture. Gender is often indirectly indexed through stances, attitudes, and other social meanings that in turn index gender. We learn to understand non-referential indexes as we learn to construct gramatically correct sentences. Contextualization: create new indexes in the present. Voice: contained within any utterance, there is the voice of the speaker, the author, everyone else who uses this utterance, which is a big part of social construction. Non-referential indexes are far more common than referential ones.
