ANTH 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Pronunciation Of English ⟨A⟩, Endometriosis, Vomiting

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16 May 2018

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Anth 353

Sex and Gender in Culture

Spring 2018

Presentations: Birth Control

Effects and Language Bias.

A. Bias of language

- hey guys

- hey girls ould be strage

- Hey guys is not questioned

- Viewed as neutral/ encompassing

- How does language produce these biases?

- English language biased

- Woman has root word for man

- Why does this happen?

- Words dot hae eaig uless e gie the eaig

- Promotes male based culture

- Lexicon:

- The vocabulary of a language an individual speaker or group of speakers or a

subject.

- The vocabulary of a particular language, field, social class, person, etc. Very

broad

- A book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words ina language and

their definitions

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