[Corpora-List] FW: Gender differences in language

[Terry]

Gender differences are social constructs? I too used to subscribe to this
view, at least in intellectual discourse. Nonetheless, there is a large body
of evidence in the field of evolutionary psychology that says gender
differences are rooted in the biological differences between men and women.
Worth taking a look at, even if you remain ideologically unconvinced. David
Buss has written a useful textbook entitled Evolutionary Psychology, which
would be a good place to start.

 

 

Terry

 

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M.E.Sciubba
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] FW: Gender differences in language

 

>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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