POLITICAL CORRECTNESS Flashcards
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Cameron
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-Verbal Hygiene (1995)= women’s lang in the work place seen as too feminine to be taken seriously, the lang we use can have social consequences (defended the use of PC)
2
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Performance Approach
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- linguists in 1990s took a social constructive approach to lang and gender
- social constructivism= the importance of social interaction as constructing identity and people coming together to form a shared construction of the world