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Gender in Language and Communication I (Women's Linguistic Features…

- - - - Terms used for preparation of food
      - Computer jargons
- - - - Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
        
        We impose our ideas on our environment as a result of the language we have. We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages. The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organised by our minds – and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.
        
        Language differences also include different coding of 'reality' such as color terms.
        
        Metaphorical: He turns green means 'jealous'.
        
        Connotations: black clothes – signifies bereavement, in India; white shirt symbolises period of mourning
        
        White symbolises purity
        Yellow means cowardice
        Red means danger;
        seeing red means angry/anger
      - Anthropomorphism
        
        One of the 'projections' that we used to see
        
        Something that describes human to things
        
        An example of connecting language and thinking
        
        Example: Concept of animation for children: brooms and spoons can talk, dance and sing like humans
        (e.g. Beauty and the Beast)
        
        Female names are given for cars such as Teana, Serena, Sephia
        Boat – Christina, ship - Queen Elizabeth II, hurricane – Diana, Katrina, Irma
        
        We ‘humanise’ or ‘inanimate’ in order to be ‘friendly’ or ‘less terrifying’ – to reduce fear.
        
        Like wild and savage bear or beasts - we make 'teddy bear' which is a child’s favorite and women love to cuddle.
        
        The physical attraction of these objects (cars, boats and boats) is often highlighted.
        
        The same as highlighting the physical beauty of women in terms of appearance or body shape.
        
        For example, an extract from a news report on the Britannia royal yacht, ‘a ship which has given good faithful service for 44 years, and which is still as elegant now as when she was commissioned …’
        
        According to Spender (1980), this is the perspective of men or the way men think about the world as a whole and such language is used by the public.
        
        Language is used without giving detailed analysis of anything we think - no due attention is given to the use of language and the language is used naturally.
        
        But when the use of the language is stuck then we give a subtle study of the implicit pattern of thought in the language. Then we ask ourselves who came up with such ‘thinking’ and subsequently the language itself.