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... men , their " standard " dialects con- trolled by men , and men's perceptions reflected in their structural properties , I must ask : Why have women allowed men to control language so thoroughly for so long ? Why have women accepted men's ...
... men , their " standard " dialects con- trolled by men , and men's perceptions reflected in their structural properties , I must ask : Why have women allowed men to control language so thoroughly for so long ? Why have women accepted men's ...
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... men's language . " It's less a matter of what women can say than what they cannot say . The women's " language " of the Zulus consists of nothing more than a series of substitution rules governing the names men forbid women to utter ...
... men's language . " It's less a matter of what women can say than what they cannot say . The women's " language " of the Zulus consists of nothing more than a series of substitution rules governing the names men forbid women to utter ...
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... men differ both phonologically and morphologically ; it is the male dialect , how- ever , that is marked , not the women's , and the men's speech that specifies sex . For example , men attach a suffix , -tii to nouns and verbs ...
... men differ both phonologically and morphologically ; it is the male dialect , how- ever , that is marked , not the women's , and the men's speech that specifies sex . For example , men attach a suffix , -tii to nouns and verbs ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
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