Language and Women's Place With Special Reference to Arabic  

Oleh:

Abd-el-Jawad, Hassan R.S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 3 (1989), page 305-324.
Fulltext: 11_03_Abd-el-Jawad.pdf (1.53MB)

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Our use and choice of language is often determined by the thoughts, ideologies, values and attitudes we would like to express. For example, a society’s beliefs about and attitudes toward the sexes are often reflecied in the way language is used to speak about men and women. The underlying social and cultural assumptions (which in patriarchal societies may reflect the view of men) seem to be that women are viewed as marginal, weak, powerless and dependent upon men. This is often realized linguistically. Speech about women implies an inferior sexual object and probably a taboo which requires at times euphemism. All in ah, the social and cultural inequalities between men and women are reflected in language producing what we may refer to as sexualty-biased language. In this paper, aspects of naming conventions and terms of reference and address common in Jordan are investigated. These linguistic features exhibit a certain amount of pro-male and anti-female bias and the dominant social and cultural values and beliefs.

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