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By Francine Frank, Frank Anshen
In a hugely readable and energetic textual content, the authors discover the best way language mirrors our cultural assumptions, specifically these involved in gender differences. concentrating on modern concerns, they draw on their wisdom of sociolinguistics and different languages to demonstrate how sexism can be hidden by means of conduct of language. In making the reader conscious of those, they recommend concepts for swap.
Language and the Sexes synthesizes a variety of up to date details and study less than a number of subject matters: naming, stereotypes of language habit, the politics of dialog, types of deal with, asymmetry in vocabulary, and chances of reform. The e-book concludes with recommended tasks concerning those issues, instructions for non-discriminatory language use, and an in depth bibliography.
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Have you heard Page 31 the one about the man who told his wife not to talk while he was interrupting? Some interesting facts about how men exercise the prerogatives of male power in conversations between couples are revealed in a study by Pamela Fishman. She points out that conversation is "a process of ongoing negotiated activity between people" (p. 11). In order to have a conversation, the participants must interact on a number of levels and so we might well expect conversations between men and women to reflect the relative power of the sexes in our society.
And rightly so, as humans who cannot speak have serious mental, physical, or emotional problems. Moreover, it should be pointed out that many of those who cannot speak or hear because of physical disabilities are not without language; in the deaf community in the United States, American Sign Language fills the role taken by English among the hearing and provides further evidence of the universality of language among humans. Finally, we find that human language is limited to humans. Neither dolphins, nor bees, nor chimpanzees in their natural state have anything which is close to human language.
At another level, magic spells and obscene words reflect our belief that language can directly affect the physical world. The power is in the words themselves, not in their referents; the words of a spell must be repeated exactly, synonyms are not allowed. Similarly, the embarrassment involved in speaking about sex and excrement is much mitigated if we use terms with a Latin origin and avoid "four-letter" Anglo-Saxon words. To the best of our knowledge, no child has ever faced having her or his mouth washed out with soap for saying copulate or excrement.