Language: Is a tool of communication
Gender: Is a range of characteristic used to distinguish between male and females, particularly in the case of men and woman and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them.
Language and Gender: itself is an area of study within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and related fields that investigates varieties of speech associated with a particular gender or social norms for such gendered language use.
The gender pattern is a typical sociolinguistic pattern, a characteristic type of sex-graded linguistic variation. It results from the occurrence of a particular linguistic variable with the non-linguistic variable of sex and gender-the biologically defined distinction between females and males and the social distinction between feminine and masculine. The gender pattern describes phonological differences in overall female and male speech behaviour
A formulation of the gender pattern:
There is a relationship between the biological and social sex gender of a speaker and the use of a particular phonological variant in the form that:
1. In stable variables women use more standard variants (prestige variants, socially acceptance variants) than man of the same social class and age under the same circumstances.
2. In stables variables men use more non-standard variants (non-prestige variants, socially less favoured variants) that woman of the same social class and age under the same circumstances.
According to Meyerhoff (2006) a variable can be considered stable if there is no evidence that one of it variants is the preferred variant and is pushing out the other one. (ng) is a typical case of a stable variable which is not undergoing change with regard the use of its velar and alveolar nasal variants.
A man talk to man:
Let's get hammered (short, vulgar, NOT impolite)
I don't like this topic at all. (formal behaviour, audience, statement)
He was a hell of a man. (talking about s.o, compliment)
A woman talk to a woman:
Let's meet for a make up party next Saturday. (informative, polite)
Do you mind if we change the topic. (formal behaviour, audience, politeness)
The guy I met in the elevator had a very bad attitude. (honest, polite, bad experience)
A man talk to a woman:
Would you like to have another drink? (polite, playing a role, thinking of own interest)
We will discuss the topic tomorrow if you don't mind (politeness, formally, audience)
He is a very strange person (covering own antipathy with politeness)
A woman talk to man:
You should hurry up honey. (indicating time pressure polite, hidden information)
I will announce my decision tomorrow at 2 pm. (formal, audience, informative)
It was an interesting experience to meet him. (polite, description of bad experience, hiding emotion)
Culture, Grammar and Word
PRONOUNS
Male Female
English He She
French Il Elle
Thai Phom Chan/dichan
Japanese Boku Atashi
References Link:
http://www.slideshare.net/dewynoviienz/language-and-sex?next_slideshow=1
http://www.ello.uos.de/field.php/Sociolinguistics/Genderpattern
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