NEED HELP with Gendered Language (1 Viewer)

[pinksugar]

Where can I get notes or exemplar essays for this subject? I found choosing a self selected text hard and I also find it difficult to explain how language shapes and reflects values! please help! thanks in advance!

 

[lowowl]

not good timing my friend!
language shapes values because everytime you say something like "you scream like a girl" then you are perpetuating the value that is placed in how brave females are - basically that they are the weaker sex. The more this phrase may be said, the more it shapes the values contained in our language. I guess after a while this no longer shapes the values in our language - becuase it is so instilled within it - but instead reflects the values in our language. does this make sense? shaping and reflecting are intrinsic in this way, refection is a consequence of shaping, it cannot exist without it. The question is, is your text shaping values or reflecting them??? I hope this has been helpful, I'm still trying to straighten out my own ideas and understanding of this bloody module!!!!!!!!

 

[Katgurl]

read the first couple of chapters in Tannen, that is where she describes most of the fundamental parts of gendered language, the preface is a good thing to read a few times just to work out where she is comming from, don't worry too much about it just find a few strong points from Tannen and use her terms give you a high level of language, just make sure you understand them properly.
Good luck for the exam