Grammar is sex; language is a woman.

From: Women and Language | Date: September 22, 1993| Author: Penelope, Julia | Copyright information

The reason for students' difficulties in understanding the English language and grammar is that they do not know the patriarchical metaphors that are used to form grammar. The English language is based on the metaphors of language is a woman and grammar is sex. Language structures become containers into which people insert meaning similar to the act of sex in patriarchical philosophy with women as containers. This linking between sex and communication is shown through literature and the link ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

'Grammar Girl' sets write course on word use: Arizona woman uses podcasts to turn passion into profits
Chicago Sun-Times ; ... that nondescript appearance is a woman who goes by the name Grammar Girl, a character who has developed ... fans talking exclusively about grammar. Yes, grammar. Grammar Girl is actually Mignon Fogarty ... writer who has combined her love of language with an online expertise to develop ...
Advertising to the "other" culture: women's use of language and language's use of women.
National Forum ; ... occur in all known societies and are made manifest in language, the shaper of human reality. Shulamith Firesone, in The Dialectic of Sex (1971), argues that the sex role system divides human experience; men and women live ... interpretation of what the images mean, do not ordinarily focus on ...
A Bard by any other sex .. Scholar suggests the author of 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Hamlet' was a woman.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)
The Washington Times ; ... famous writers of all time was a woman? In Sweet Swan of Avon, independent ... Shakespeare were actually written by a woman named Mary Sidney. Sidney could ... the idea that Shakespeare was a woman, Ms. Williams said. Questioning ... of writers. Williams is a brave woman. I fear she will be attacked ...
The grammar of male violence.
off our backs ; Our use of language in discussing violence works to disguise to the point ... world. One especially egregious and pervasive misuse of language is the focus on women as the victims and not on men ... the gender of the perpetrator is completely hidden: A woman was raped rather than A man raped a woman or A ...
ENGLISH PLAIN AND SIMPLE LOGIC AND LANGUAGE-II
The Manila Times ; English is, of course, hardly unique in being idiomatic. Like most of the world's major languages, it unpredictably ignores its own grammar and semantics in actual usage. But the sheer richness and complexity of English idioms-or the ... one another-makes it much more difficult for nonnative speakers to learn ...