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... social as well as geographical differences . Social dialects originate in social distinctions , and the different ways women and men speak a given language are " social dialects . " I want to emphasize this connection between sex and ...
... social as well as geographical differences . Social dialects originate in social distinctions , and the different ways women and men speak a given language are " social dialects . " I want to emphasize this connection between sex and ...
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... social power in her own right . Women who could not or would not attach themselves to men had no social status . Given what we know of women's lives under several thousand years of male rule , it is more likely that " men of the lower ...
... social power in her own right . Women who could not or would not attach themselves to men had no social status . Given what we know of women's lives under several thousand years of male rule , it is more likely that " men of the lower ...
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... social functions and divisions of labor between the sexes - for example , for women , ides , faēmne , mēowle , wTfman ( n ) , hlaēfdige , for men , beorn , guma , ċeorl , rinc , waepman , hlafweard - were inherited from I - E ( Indo ...
... social functions and divisions of labor between the sexes - for example , for women , ides , faēmne , mēowle , wTfman ( n ) , hlaēfdige , for men , beorn , guma , ċeorl , rinc , waepman , hlafweard - were inherited from I - E ( Indo ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
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