How do cultural ideas about maleness and femaleness (masculine and feminine qualities) interact with ideas about language? You can consider everything from dialect speech and gender to ideas about male and female roles in the family or on the job and how this affects language usage.

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Seamus Duarte

6 November, 12:10

How do cultural ideas about maleness and femaleness (masculine and feminine qualities) interact with ideas about language? You can consider everything from dialect speech and gender to ideas about male and female roles in the family or on the job and how this affects language usage.

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Amaris Nicholson · Answer 1

I noticed a relationship between words being labeled as masculine or feminine and their implication. For example, the word "silk" has s in it. S is actually considered a sensual letter and sound. Silk is soft and the word itself sounds soft. It is considered to be feminine. Some words have negative meaning, implying underlying beliefs about genders in a society. A mutt is not bad of a word in and of its own. It’s just a dog that doesn’t have a pure breed. But placed in relation to a person, this means they sleep around and aren’t desirable. And this usually is applied to men.