Feminist Sociolinguistics
***SEE NOTES DOC FOR EXPLANATION ON BULLET POINTS/FURTHER INFO What Feminist Sociolinguistics would include is the following: analyzation of the contrasting roles of the female in society and how they are evident in everyday language use, comparison of the value society places upon a female’s body versus her intellect, how language makes these roles and values apparent, and furthermore, how language can be used to further constrain or liberate these female roles. In short, how does language use oppress or liberate the female mind and body – and how does this impact her everyday life, and ultimately, our overall culture? In order to approach all these concepts, I will be delving into a variety of subjects to provide the most comprehensive study. Thus, in order to effectively explain what I\'ve learned, I\'ll be providing an array of evolutionary psychology, neuropsychology, language as a patriarchal tool of oppression, the history of the development of language (more written, but some oral), how women have tried to regain both their bodies and the sexual language that is associated with them, how females record history (and have had history recorded on them), society\'s expectations and projected gender roles on women, and the importance of writing as a form of therapy and mode of defiance.
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Feminist Sociolinguistics
- 1. Feminist Sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics: “Sociolinguistics is the study of how language serves and is shaped by the social nature of human beings. In its broadest conception, sociolinguistics analyzes the many and diverse ways in which language and society entwine.” - http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/sociolinguistics/sociolinguistics/
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- “ If a right-handed person has a major stroke in the controlling left hemisphere, with few exceptions, a catastrophic deficit of speech, right-sided muscle paralysis and/or dysfunction in abstract thinking will occur. Conversely, damage to the right brain will impair the afflicted person’s ability to solve spatial problems, recognize faces, appreciate music, besides paralyzing the left side of the body” (Shalin 18) - Female strength: right brain Female strength: verbal capabilities, used to pass down culture and traditions to children Right brain traits ensure social safety, left hand is linked with right brain “ Many cultures use the left hand exclusively to aid in the elimination of feces and urine and consider it unclean, reserving the right hand for eating. The evidence that these prejudices still persist resides in our language. To be left out, to be served left-overs, to receive a left-handed compliment, or to be left in the lurch reflects the negative connotation associated with this side, and by extension, the right hemisphere. The word for left in Italian is sinistra. The word sinister in English comes from the same root. In French, left is gauche, which also means clumsy. Droit, the right, means correct” (Shlain 26). Cones: male, Rods: female; cones developed from hunting, more specific to humans than any other animal species Cones function in a liner fashion, linked with left-brain, reads one-at-a-time and scrutinizes Rods are based at viewing the world all-at-once, intuiting gesture and bodily communication, more linked with female. Cones used more for reading In speaking, both hands and cones and rods are used.
- “ The ruling elite of the 1500’s took pains to keep this high explosive out of women’s hands, muzzling 80 percent of the population with enforced illiteracy. ‘Rhetoric in all its forms,’ declaimed the authorities, ‘lies outside the province of women.’ Those who rebelled were forced into marriageless obscurity and social exile” (Prioleau 121). Orthodox: written scriptures and divine revelation. Gnostic: spiritual instructions were given and received orally. Orthodox: misogynisitc, literal biblical interpretations, written records, wiped out Gnostics, celibacy and purity, demonize sexuality: “sin” Gnostics: equality, symbolic interpretations, oral traditions. “ Because Adam and Eve are characterized as they are, human history and social relationships are set in order in such a way that certain possibilities are excluded” (112). Eve took the apple, punished for knowledge and sexuality, suffering and death in childbirth Last commandment: women listed as property, alongside donkey and house The biblical word for wife, beluah, meant “owned” Eve is made from one of Adam’s ribs, literally supporting a man. Hebrew word for rib, Tsela, was “stumbling” Lilith, Adam’s first wife, omitted from mainstream knowledge, ‘Why should I lie beneath you,’ she demanded, ‘when I am your equal since both of us were created from dust?’ Abstinence education: girls told that condoms are highly effective and won’t prevent HIV, HPV shot will increase promiscuity, promiscuity increases depression and lowers grades, skin-to-skin contact can transmit an STI, you can get pregnant just by touching someone else’s genitals, STI from someone else’s tears, swallowing bleach to avoid an STI, premarital sex against the law
- - Cunt was a female title of power and respect, a slut or prostitute was sought for safe haven and cleansing, and whores were holy
- - “The very word ‘erotic’ comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects - born of Chaos, and personifying creative creative power and harmony. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the life-force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”
- - There have been several scenarios that Emma Salazar, Community Education Coordinator of local organization, SASO (Sexual Assault Services Organization), has encountered during her Bystander Intervention sessions in high school classrooms where girls have reportedly said, “Well, what does it matter if she was raped? She’s a slut,” implying: it doesn’t count, she couldn’t have been violated if she’s “easy.”