Discourse analysis history of gender and language dosen : kelik wachyudi

1. Discourse analysishistory of gender and languagedosen: kelikwachyudi The second group…

2. A brief history of gender and language An awareness of a relationship between language and women’s social status can be found in 19th century. The history of gender and language had been developed as field of research alongside the second wave of feminism during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1973, Lakoff argued that ‘the marginality and powerlessness of women is reflected in both the ways men and women are expected to speak and the ways in which women are spoken of’.

3. Continue… Feminist language researchers established that men’s power was manifested in language in a number of complex ways. Spender (1980) identified one of these when she argued that in the past men have had control over language (as philosophers, orators, politician, grammarian, linguist, lexicographers, and so on), so they encoded sexism into language to consolidate their claims of male supremacy.

4. Continue… Spenders’ ( 1980 )work attended to the powerfulness of those can exercise some degree of control over language. People with the public speaking rights, those who record and communicate ideas, and the information-rich are all in a position to exercise some power over language – to use the power of language and communication to promote particular social and cultural beliefs and suppress others. However, language is not just a tool for manipulating meaning, nor merely a vessel for the containment of ideas. Another source of power is how language is used by speakers when communicating with each other.

5. Continue… Lakoff (1973) argued against campaigns to change the language because she thought that language change followed social change and not the reverse.

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