ANTB21H3 Chapter Notes -Language Ideology, Indexicality, Gender Role
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Language: the ways of communication and how it is used. Social roles: dance (f) activities, physical sports (g) attributes. Behaviors girls: caring, gentle, kind, calm, fragile. Gender stereotypes how masculine sperm was rowdy, aggressive, active. Emily martin: even the way that we think about sex or try to tell a story about reproduction, these gender stereotypes still exists within language which builds the reality. Judith butler talks about how gender is performative. It allows us to think about the language the way people talk and shape the gender identities. - various ways in which it is expressed. Through language you"re actively producing gender and various effects + variabilities of gender. Women tend to say i"m sorry more frequently than men expressing concern, many learned element of conversation. Many of them avoid it due to the fear of feeling down. The power of talk, debrah tannen **
