MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Rhoticity In English, African American Vernacular English, World Englishes
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Linguistic properties of aave: phonology: e. g. use of /f/ and /v/ instead of th-sound, lexis: e. g. chick girl", groovy/hip stylish", grammar: e. g. homophones, multiple negation, no third person singular {-s} Feminist linguistics: emerged as subdiscipline in the 1960s, closely tied to political movement, central topic: language and gender , gender is not seen as a biological concept, but as social construction. Social gender: activated in any kind of interaction between humans (performativity, the gender identity a person relates to (and behaves like, biological sex tied to social roles and expectations (e. g. profession) Different therapy strategies: english and german: english tends to abstract away from gender, german tends to specify gender, reason: german has grammatical gender. Second wave of feminist linguistics: since late 1980s, has become much less radical, shift from language policies to investigation of gender as a sociolinguistic and pragmatic issue e. g. gender-specific language use.
