23.1449, Qs: Women only Languages

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Subject: 23.1449, Qs: Women only Languages

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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:32:21
From: Paula Isvoranu [paula_isvoranu at yahoo.co.uk]
Subject: Women only Languages

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Dear colleagues,

My name is Paula Isvoranu and I have freshly begun graduate work in 
sociolinguistics (genderlect, to be more precise). Currently I am 
researching instances in which the difference between sexes is the 
most pronounced, leading to a separate "women only" language, or at 
least to specific markers that are exclusively used by females.
     So far, I have found a couple of such examples: Nu Shu, Yanyuwa, 
and Laadan (for completely separate languages), and Japanese (for 
very marked gender differences in speech).
     I would be most grateful if you could point me in the direction of 
other societies/languages in which the gender differences are 
extremely marked linguistically.

Yours,
Paula Isvoranu 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics






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