Gender and the Linguistic Market
March 5, 2007 |
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Speakers have at their disposal an array of linguistic resources
- language, dialect, accent are all ways of talking about the
repertoire of varieties that speakers employ in day-to-day life. No
speaker uses a homogeneous variety; rather, we all move around within
a repertoire as a function of situation. Most people in the world are
bilingual or multilingual, and those who are not have a range of
stylistic resources within their one language. Gender plays an important
role in our use of linguistic varieties, and this class will begin by
talking about ideologies of linguistic varieties and the relation
between these ideologies and gender.
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