In today’s society, there seems to be two different meanings between sex and gender. Sex is a more scientific term that explains physical traits and sexual preferences. Gender carries a more social tone. Meaning that it refers to the different clothing, activities, career choices, and positions people hold in society.
The term sex references the sum of physical characteristics that identify males from females. The most distinctive difference in characteristics is that man and women have different reproductive organs. This is an obvious difference. Other obvious differences include facial hair or lack thereof, deeper voices in males and more muscular builds in males. Women are generally smaller and more feminine. They have softer voices, in …show more content…
It is realized that there is a specific “language” that is used by men and women. If a male tends to speak the “language” used by women, he is considered to be crossing the boundary and is orientated by the opposite sex. That is the reason why it appears a statement such as "I would describe her as handsome” rather than “beautiful" would be considered crossing the boundary. Because, in the English language “handsome” is used only to describe males and “beautiful” is used only to describe females. (Lakoff, 1975) (Spender, 1985)
Over the years, adjectives have played a huge role in expressing the genders. Certain adjectives have been associated with each gender type. A lot of these adjectives are stereotypical of a gender and can be insults if said about the opposite gender. For example, it was thought that all women should be “dainty” but if a man was called “dainty” he would be highly offended. This can work in the opposite way too. For example, it was thought that all men should be of a “big build” but again, this would insult a woman.
Although the world has developed immensely and the language used to express gender is becoming more universal, it is very important to be careful when expressing gender through language as it is still easy to …show more content…
The distribution of the variable may be studied in terms of whether a speaker pronounces or deletes the consonant /r/ in final or post-vocalic preconsonantal positions (for example in car, cart). Speaker A's use of the variable can be compared with speaker B's, since (r) is a piece of the language which can be counted. The variants of a given variable are identified in advance and assigned a numerical value which reflects the social values attached to them. Their incidence is correlated statistically with (i) relevant features of the sentence or discourse environment and (ii) with social characteristics, such as class, of their speakers. That is, the value assignment permits a given individual to be assigned a position on a status scale. The status indexes are then grouped into (for instance)
The term sex references the sum of physical characteristics that identify males from females. The most distinctive difference in characteristics is that man and women have different reproductive organs. This is an obvious difference. Other obvious differences include facial hair or lack thereof, deeper voices in males and more muscular builds in males. Women are generally smaller and more feminine. They have softer voices, in …show more content…
It is realized that there is a specific “language” that is used by men and women. If a male tends to speak the “language” used by women, he is considered to be crossing the boundary and is orientated by the opposite sex. That is the reason why it appears a statement such as "I would describe her as handsome” rather than “beautiful" would be considered crossing the boundary. Because, in the English language “handsome” is used only to describe males and “beautiful” is used only to describe females. (Lakoff, 1975) (Spender, 1985)
Over the years, adjectives have played a huge role in expressing the genders. Certain adjectives have been associated with each gender type. A lot of these adjectives are stereotypical of a gender and can be insults if said about the opposite gender. For example, it was thought that all women should be “dainty” but if a man was called “dainty” he would be highly offended. This can work in the opposite way too. For example, it was thought that all men should be of a “big build” but again, this would insult a woman.
Although the world has developed immensely and the language used to express gender is becoming more universal, it is very important to be careful when expressing gender through language as it is still easy to …show more content…
The distribution of the variable may be studied in terms of whether a speaker pronounces or deletes the consonant /r/ in final or post-vocalic preconsonantal positions (for example in car, cart). Speaker A's use of the variable can be compared with speaker B's, since (r) is a piece of the language which can be counted. The variants of a given variable are identified in advance and assigned a numerical value which reflects the social values attached to them. Their incidence is correlated statistically with (i) relevant features of the sentence or discourse environment and (ii) with social characteristics, such as class, of their speakers. That is, the value assignment permits a given individual to be assigned a position on a status scale. The status indexes are then grouped into (for instance)