Who is talking?? :
Who is talking?? 1a Oh Dear, you’ve put the peanut butter in the refrigirator again.
1b Damn, you’ve put the peanut butter in the refrigirator again.
2a What a terrific idea!
2b What a divine idea!
Slide 3:
Men or Women?
Who speaks more?
Who are more to the point?
Do we speak the same topics?
What are the topics?
Are there any gender linked words?
Who accomodate more to the other’s language (and to other’s presence?)
GENDER DISCRIMINATION :
GENDER DISCRIMINATION What do you understand?
Which one is sexist: languages or societies?
Examples to sexist societies
Examples to sexist languages
(Whorphian Hypotheses)
Sexist Languages :
Sexist Languages Use of Pronouns: He / She
Phonological Differences: In different dialects of English, in the USA.
Intonation Differences: Women- rising intonation / tag questions.
Vocabulary Differences: mother- in- law variety of languages, colors, adjectives, addressing / titling words.
Paralinguistic Differences: They require women to appear submissive to men.
CROSS-SEX CONVERATION AND ACCOMODATION :
CROSS-SEX CONVERATION AND ACCOMODATION Women to women
Men to Men
Women to Men
Men to Women
ANALYSES :
ANALYSES These differences in languages lead to differences in role models.
These lead to (as Whorphian Hypotheses suggests) sexism in languages and societies.
We either have neutralise the languages or accept the differences.