Sex Differences in Language: A Cross-National Perspective with Emphasis on English  

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Destefano, Johanna S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 2 (1979), page 316-324.
Fulltext: 01_02_DeStefano.pdf (336.07KB)

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Sex differences in language, the topic of much current research, have been analyzed according to differences in how males and females use language and to differences in language usage referring to the sexes. Differences in form and in the patterns of use are also revealing distinctions. Research f'mdings on sex differences in the semantic system of various languages are presented, including such differences as incidence of intensifiers in speech, different terms for objects based on speaker sex, and differential lexical development in certain topic areas. Research findings on refereneial language differences based on sex include forms of address and use of so-called generic or six-inclusive terms. Findings of some research studies on selected English sex-neutral terms are reported; they indicate that none of those referential terms function consistently in the socalled generic manner, including man and the pronoun he, in its various forms.

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