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powerpoint presentation lecture 12b: language, thought & culture – style, slang, jargon, taboo words, gendered language styles, slang & jargon styles or registers: varieties of language that are specific to a particular situation formal or informal are you going to take linguistics 20? gonna take ling 20? we all have control over different styles other languages have more elaborate codes of style usage thai: dæk, kin, thaan, raprathan, chan styles or registers can you think of other examples of how you might say the same thing in two different ways, depending on the situation (i.e., when, where, to whom) in which you were speaking? styles, slang & jargon slang: informal, nonstandard vocabulary, usually intelligible only to people from a particular region or social group. function: to mark social identity subject to rapid change old words, new combos: spaced out, right on, hangup, rip-off new words: barf, flub, pooped shortened forms: …
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sy women’s libber vs. courageous women’s advocate taboo words sex is a four letter word. certain words are taboo – they are not to be used, or at least, not in ‘polite company.’ in english, words borrowed from latin sound ‘scientific’ and therefore appear to be technical ad ‘clean,’ where as native anglo-saxon counterparts are taboo. a reflection of the opinion that vocabulary used by the upper classes is superior to that used by the lower classes. norman conquest of 1066 ‘taboo’ vs. ‘clean’ words anglo-saxon taboo words: shit tits prick cock cunt fuck balls etc. latinate acceptable words: feces breasts penis penis vagina intercourse testicles etc. racial, national, religious, gender, sexual orientation epithets the use of epithets for people of different religions, nationalities, race, gender or sexual orientation tells us something about the users of these words. e.g., boy, slant, bitch, fag, buddha-head, to gyp the use of epithets …
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so many more for women? language and gender – marked and unmarked forms one striking fact about the asymmetry between male and female terms in many languages is that when there are male/female pairs, the male form is unmarked and the female term is created by adding a suffix to it: prince / princess count / countess actor / actress host / hostess hero / heroine etc. is this true in the languages you know? language and gender – generic ‘he’ the unmarked, or male terms used to serve as general terms: ‘all men are created equal’ ‘the brotherhood of man’ ‘everyone must pick up for himself.’ in the past generation, this area of language has changed quite a bit: mankind > people, manpower > personnel, mothering > nurturing, to man > to operate, mailman > postal worker, fireman > firefighter, etc. ‘everyone must pick up for themselves.’ is this …
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powerpoint presentation lecture 12b: language, thought & culture – style, slang, jargon, taboo words, gendered language styles, slang & jargon styles or registers: varieties of language that are specific to a particular situation formal or informal are you going to take linguistics 20? gonna take ling 20? we all have control over different styles other languages have more elaborate codes of style usage thai: dæk, kin, thaan, raprathan, chan styles or registers can you think of other examples of how you might say the same thing in two different ways, depending on the situation (i.e., when, where, to whom) in which you were speaking? styles, slang & jargon slang: informal, nonstandard vocabulary, usually intelligible only to people from a particular …

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