Genderlect

Cards (6)

  • Spender (1980)

    Man Made Language
  • Suggested that the English language
    • Up holds structures that sustain male power
  • Women
    • Are judged against silence
  • E.g. default male pronouns, lexical asymmetry
    • Androcentric
  • Deborah Cameron (2007)
    Published the book The Myth of Venus and Mars- which contradicted the difference approach of other linguists, Suggested that the mainstream belief in differences between the 2 genders link to confirmation bias, She also believes that there are less similarities between 2 men than there are between a man + a woman
  • Judith Butler (1990)
    Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Presents the idea of gender performativity (something you do not are) and gender as a social construct, Meaning it is fluid and culturally determined – not by sex