LIGN 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Double Negative, Genderqueer, Language Change
16 May 2017
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Gender: social construct closely linguistic work conflates biological sex/gender assignment and gender identity. Recent work has started to examine gender (incl. non-binary identities) more. Women tend to lead change in progress. In general, women show higher frequency of prestige variants. Women use less negative concord in every social class. Studies have shown that both biological males and females have shown sensitivity. Women lack social power and may be compensating. Women are more likely to penalized for not using standardized forms. Women"s speech: women have a very limited range in which their. Linguistic differences by gender may have their roots in acquisition of language speech is accepted by children. In some cases, males appear a full generation behind females, suggesting that males learn the change from their mothers, while females advance the change beyond their parents" generation. Women tend to be more sensitive to the standard. Women tend to be the innovators in language change.
