[Corpora-List] FW: Gender differences in language

[M.E.Sciubba]

>Mueller: there is a language (I think it is even written) in the Atlantic
Coast of Central America called Gari'fona in which girls  would
exclusively use different words for the same objects. I wonder if they
would be then more biological than other girls or what is it that
could be interpreted from it

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generally :] speaking gender differences in language are acquired during the
socalled "socialization age", that is when small children learn to speak and
to interact with the people around them, so gender differences are social
constructs.

if you google eckert gender you will have a list of sociolinguists who have
done research on language and gender.

anyway, japanese also has gendered lexis...



*M.Eleonora Sciubba*

Dipartimento di Linguistica
Università Roma Tre

*For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words
await another voice* (T. S. Eliot)



2008/3/26, Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx at gmail.com>:
>
> > EVANSTON, Ill. --- Although researchers have long agreed that girls have
> > superior language abilities than boys, until now no one has clearly
> > provided a biological basis that may account for their differences.
> ~
> there is a language (I think it is even written) in the Atlantic
> Coast of Central America called Gari'fona in which girls  would
> exclusively use different words for the same objects. I wonder if they
> would be then more biological than other girls or what is it that
> could be interpreted from it
> ~
> I know my comments may sound more than half way off but this is how
> some, pseudo scientific propositions sound to me
> ~
> There are obvious "biological differences" between girls and boys as
> there are all kinds of differences among people, but is it really what
> makes of "different" or one?
> ~
> lbrtchx
>
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