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Language and gender

Research into the many possible relationships, intersections and tensions between language and gender is diverse. This field crosses disciplinary boundaries, and, as a bare minimum, could be said to encompass work notionally housed within applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, cultural studies, feminist media studies…

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History and development of the field

Language and power

Language and symbolism

Practices associated with gender in formally gender-neutral languages

Transgender linguistics

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Language and gender

Nodes90
Edges89
Triples77
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022222
Components1

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Language and gender

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related to Deficit model (1970s) · 22
Language and gender → Descriptions, Development, Early, However, In, Its Nature, Jespersen's, Lakoff, Lakoff's, Lakoff's Language, Language, Origin, Otto Jespersen's, Robin Lakoff, Speech, Studies, The, The Woman, These, This
related to Children's television · 10
Language and gender → Attributional Consequences, Children's Television, In, Male/Female Language Differences, Mulac, On, Public Broadcasting Service, Saturdays, The, They
related to Social constructionist models (2000s) · 10
Language and gender → As, Communication, Instead, One, That, The, This, Thus, West, Zimmerman
related to Transgender linguistics · 8
Language and gender → Early, English-speaking, Lal Zimman's, Lexical, Sociophonetic, US, While, Within
related to Practices associated with gender in formally gender-neutral languages · 6
Language and gender → Gender, However, In, Linguistic, Not, Scholars
related to history · 3
Language and gender → Since, The, These
is a · 1
Language and gender → way in which it affects children's television

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gender language women men social study use power differences female male self-disclosure also linguistic society research communication women's one status

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Language and genderis away in which it affects children's television0.90text
Lakoff's Languageinstance ofother scholars began to produce studies that both challenged Lakoff's arguments and expanded the field of language and gender studies.Studies0.80text
Woman's Place have been labeled theinstance ofother scholars began to produce studies that both challenged Lakoff's arguments and expanded the field of language and gender studies.Studies0.80text
Dale Spenderinstance ofScholars0.80text
Don Zimmermaninstance ofScholars0.80text
Candace West subscribe to this viewinstance ofScholars0.80text
genderinstance ofLanguage is a complex and dynamic system that produces meaning about social categories0.80text
'mm'instance ofparalinguistic features0.80text
'yeah'instance ofparalinguistic features0.80text
which is behaviour associated with collaborative language useinstance ofparalinguistic features0.80text
verbal rejectioninstance ofand may take direct forms0.80text
negative facial expressions or body movementsinstance ofand may take direct forms0.80text

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