Language and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach Lakoff

I outline some of the key contributions this body of work has made to sociolinguistic theory, methodology, and knowledge and suggest some future research directions through which the field may engage with contemporary social issues. This review surveys the historical trajectory of scholarship broadly concerned with men, masculinities, and language and charts its development from more critical work on men and masculinities within sociology to its emergence as an independent field of inquiry. In doing so, the field has added to the conceptual and theoretical tool kit of sociolinguistics, furthering both our understanding of the linguistic strategies used by men in a variety of contexts and the myriad links connecting language and the social performance of gender.

In the past two decades, the field of language and masculinities studies has become an established part of language, gender, and sexuality research and grown in response to concerns about the limited criticality directed toward men and masculinities in sociolinguistics. The final part of this contribution considers the evidence on “women’s speech” in Giovanni Boccaccio’s treatise De mulieribus claris. This new edition of Language and Womans Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers. The focus is on excerpts from Plato, Aristophanes, Roman comedy and rhetorical writings, but further (sometimes indirect) sources are also included. Robin Tolmach Lakoff Harper & Row, 1975 - English language - 83 pages 1 Review Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified 'In this original. In 1975 Robin Tolmach Lakoff published her seminal work Language and womens Place which instigated Dominance theory which explains that language varies. It is highlighted that differences are pointed out by ancient authors not only in pragmatic respects, but also for the phonological, morphological and lexico-semantic levels. It is the aim of this contribution to bring together relevant metalinguistic passages and provide a close reading in order to obtain a more differentiated impression of the ancients’ views on gender-specific language and style. The ancient sources on women’s language are admittedly not very ample and, moreover, rather scattered. However, the vast majority of these contributions completely ignores the fact that some ancient authors already raised the problem of gender-specific language and thus made at least a first step towards a diaphasic sketch of the linguistic levels and varieties of both Greek and Latin. It has been the main interest of numerous studies in modern linguistics, in particular since the 1980s, to analyse gender-specific language and modes of communication.

Language and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach Lakoff