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... vocabulary for lexical gaps , holes in a vocabulary where the language doesn't provide words to describe people and events . An analogy may help my readers visualize how vocabularies represent culturally pre- ferred ways of organizing ...
... vocabulary for lexical gaps , holes in a vocabulary where the language doesn't provide words to describe people and events . An analogy may help my readers visualize how vocabularies represent culturally pre- ferred ways of organizing ...
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... vocabulary , what we can describe within its framework and what we cannot , we can draw inferences about what is or is not considered " consensus re- ality " by speakers . The vocabulary of a language consists of words for those people ...
... vocabulary , what we can describe within its framework and what we cannot , we can draw inferences about what is or is not considered " consensus re- ality " by speakers . The vocabulary of a language consists of words for those people ...
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... vocabularies require different representations of their semantic structure . The OE vocabulary of sex - specific words for both sexes , e.g. , WTf / wer , and words or compounds that referred to the social functions and divisions of ...
... vocabularies require different representations of their semantic structure . The OE vocabulary of sex - specific words for both sexes , e.g. , WTf / wer , and words or compounds that referred to the social functions and divisions of ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues Julia Penelope No preview available - 1990 |
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action adjectives agency agent agentless passives analysis assertion assume assumptions attribute Baugh behaviors chapter conceptual consensus reality context culture deictic describe descriptions dialect Dictionary discussion distinction Dyirbal English language euphemism example explicit fact false deixis father feelings female female-specific feminine Feminist force fuck function gender girl grammarians grammatical gender heterosexual human nouns idea identify implied interpret Jespersen Láadan label Lakoff language Latin Lesbian linguistic lives male dominance Mary Daly masculine meaning men's metaphors misogyny modal morphemes Norman French noun phrase objects ourselves patriarchal perceive perceptions person predicates prescriptive grammars pronoun psych-predicates rape readers reality reference relationship responsible rhetorical rules semantic sentence sex-specific sexual social someone speak specific speech structure suggests suppressed Suzette Haden Elgin syntactic talk tense thing tion topic universe of discourse verb vocabulary woman women words writing