ANT102H5 Chapter : Reading Notes-Bonvillain (pg 216-39).docx
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Images of gender in linguistic form: german, the german language classifies nouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter and marks articles, adjectives, and verbs to agree with the gender of nouns, spanish, in some pairs of words having male/female counterparts, the spanish language expresses sexual meanings for females, both the german and spanish examples demonstrate a similar theme: men are neutral, generic, typical persons, whereas women are derived, secondary, or restricted, russian, analysis of the meanings of male/female kinship terms in russian also shows a restricted representation of females. Japanese: in japanese, gender inequality within the family is revealed by forms of address employed between spouses and by words used to refer to one"s spouse, husbands typically address their wives by first name, in contrast, if a wife addresses her husband by his first name, she adds the honorific suffix san .
