Language, power, and cross-sex communication strategies in Hindi and Indian English revisited

Singh, Rajendra; Lele, Jayant

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“…Indeed, Singh and Lele (1990), Troemel-Ploetz (1991), Freed (1992, and Uchida (1992) argue against Tannen's and others' "different but equal" characterization of women and men, precisely along these Brought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical S Authenticated Download Date | 6/3/15 8:32 PM lines. They claim that such a characterization ignores the extent to which these Speech patterns are related to an unequal power structure between the sexes.…”

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A self versus other point of view in language: redefining femininity and masculinity

Ariel¹,

Giora²

1998

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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Current feminist theories consider femininity and masculinity distinct and inherent properties (Chodorow 1978;Dinnerstein 1976;Gilligan 1982). Likewise, contemporary research into female and male linguistic behavior holds that women's and mens speech practices are "different but equal" (e.g. Tannen 1990). Women are found to be cooperative, employing addressee-oriented speech behavior, and men are found to be dominant, employing speaker-oriented speech behavior (e.g. On the assumption that language usage reflects the Speaker's point of view, we define femininity äs adopting women's viewpoint and masculinity äs adopting mens viewpoint. We propose a notion of Seif and of Other points ofview in language. We argue that while men canfully adopt a Seif, masculine point of view, being the dominant group, women, äs a powerless group, may find it difficult to identify with their group's objectives. Traditional women, are, therefore, expected to adopt the point of view of the Other, projecting a masculine point of view: their language is expected to pattern like men s. Feminist awareness, however, may override social constraints and should, therefore, enable feminists to exhibit a genuine femininity, adopting a Seif (feminine) point of view. Our findings indeed show that traditional women and men writers' speech behavior is similar. In contrast, the speech behavior of feminists and traditional female writers is different. These findings cannot be accounted for by an essentialist hypothesis, which predicts that differences should düster around the gender dichotomy.

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A self versus other point of view in language: redefining femininity and masculinity

Ariel¹,

Giora²

1998

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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“…Paralleling research results for middle-class speakers of English in the United States, Valentine finds, for example, that male speakers of Hindi successfully initiate more conversational topics while female speakers do more of the conversational maintenance work. But her appropriation of a twocultures model of gender to explain the discursive practices of communication in mixed groups won her sharp criticism from Singh & Lele (1990), who disagree with the way she conceptualizes power in structural-functional rather than hierarchical terms. 4 I offer this description of the speech patterns of Hindi-speaking hijras as an example of how discourse analysis, when applied to a particular community of practice, can reveal profound insights about the workings of gender in society.…”

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Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi

Hall¹

2002

Gender Across Languages

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at Boulder, USA i. Introduction 2. Gender in the Hindi language system 2.1 Grammatical gender: Assignment and agreement 2.2 Generic masculines 2.3 Gender reversal: Terms of endearment and insult 3. Uses of the gender system by Hindi-speaking hijras 3.1 Language in hijra socialization 3.2 The exploitation of grammatical gender in everyday hijra conversation 3.3 The use of masculine self-reference 4. Conclusions

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“…Singh andLele (1987, 1995) took issue with the assumption of 'transfer of rhetoric hypothesis' in a bilingual setting and the way 'power' was conceptualised by Valentine in relation to her data. Specifically, they argued that the Valentinian power of the Indian woman seems to lie in her meeting the expectations Indian men speakers have of her.…”

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Researching Language and Gender: A Critical Review

Duggirala

2001

Indian Journal of Gender Studies

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This article provides a review of some of the major language and gender studies reported primarily in the English-speaking world during the past three decades. After pointing to the inadequacies of formal linguistic and sociocultural approaches in examining the complex ways in which gender interacts with language use, an alternative theoretical paradigm that gives importance to the sociohistorical and political forces residing in the meanings of the resources as well as social identity of the speaker who aims to use those meanings is described. The implications of this shiff from sociocultural to sociohistorical approaches in researching language and gender in the Indian context are discussed in this article.

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Language, power, and cross-sex communication strategies in Hindi and Indian English revisited

Cited by 9 publications

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A self versus other point of view in language: redefining femininity and masculinity

A self versus other point of view in language: redefining femininity and masculinity

Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi

Researching Language and Gender: A Critical Review

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