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11. GENDER ISSUES IN LANGUAGE CHANGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2003

Deborah Cameron
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Abstract

It has long been apparent to scholars that gender exerts an influence on language change. Recently, however, the patterns of gender differentiation attested in empirical studies have been reinterpreted in the light of current social constructionist understandings of gender. Drawing on recent work in variationist sociolinguistics, sociology of language and linguistic anthropology, this chapter focuses on new approaches to explaining gender differentiated patterns of sound change and language shift, the success or failure of planned linguistic reforms, and changes in the social evaluation of gendered speech styles.

Type
CAUSES AND CASES OF LANGUAGE CHANGE
Information
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 23 , March 2003 , pp. 187 - 201
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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