ANT253H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Marcel Danesi, Sammy Davis Jr., Cecil Fielder
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Chapter 5: language and social phenomena there are many words for promiscuous female (ex. slut, whore etc) but few for promiscuous male. Out society tends to see female sexual behaviour as less appropriate than similar male behaviour we use different way of speaking to superior people such as boss (ex. Honorifics-> signal differences in class and in types of relations among speakers. Kramer: speech of american women was characterized by a softer tone, fewer profanities and a profusion of tag questions (ex. Experiment with asking college students whether the unknown speaker of the cartoons was male or female, students were able to distinguish the sex through the ways of speaking in the cartoons. Women were found to use tag questions more often than men in some societies, grammatical gender often mirrors perceptions of biological gender roles. Ex) "general human being" refers to man -> the male person.
