Theories for Explaining Linguistic Behaviour in Gender Interaction

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Queen''s University Belfast (School of English), course: Sociolinguistics, language: English, abstract: Already in the 1960s and 70s have feminist linguistics started to examine language on the basis of gender questions. Numerous works focused on the problem whether women are discriminated th...