Language and Woman's Place

Physically, men and women are obviously different; that is, men have longer heads and longer vocal cords than females. From this point of view, women are stereotyped as being weak, subordinate and minority in society. Furthermore, with Lakoff 's "Language and Women Place" book she says that it is not important for women to speak in their own way and in the way they expect. "If they talk like women, they are stupid, I think they can not think clearly and I can not participate in a serious discussion.

Deborah Cameron (1992) cited Robin Lakoff's language and the location of the women and said, "There is a characteristic registration consisting of a specific language gesture or" female language ", provisional, compliant, lacking authority He insisted. Use of this speech style as part of its inferior social position "(15). Since this shows a power / incompetence relationship between men and women, this means that experts take it as the dominant position Another way cited by Cameron is a difference approach that claims that there is a difference in speech behavior between men and women due to differences in socialization.As the authors say, "In most cultures, there is still considerable social separation in sex, and children usually learn strategies of conversation in a single sex peer group 15)

Shortly after the announcement of languages ​​and women's places, other scholars began studying the arguments contesting Rakov and extended the areas of language and gender research. One of the improvements in deficit assertion is the so-called "dominant position method", which assumes that gender differences in language reflect differences in power in society. The deficit is attributed to Jespersen, which defines adult male language as standard and female language as defect. This approach forms a dichotomy between women and men's languages. This brought criticism on this method highlighting the problem of women's words based on men. Therefore, it is thought that women's language has its own "error".