花了三个月时间，终于把这本书读完了。语言学家的书略烧脑，但我很享受阅读过程。
You’re a person who self-identifies as a women, no matter what you body, mannerisms, or style of dress look like.
dictionary definitions become inherently political
Almost nothing about our identities can be defined on such rigid terms – gender included.
We could try to think of something gender neutral to say, choosing to focus on a person’s behavior while verbally slighting them rather than their gender, which is more specific and effective anyway….be more creative, scathing, and (importantly) relevant.
philosophers theorize that gender is acturally constructed through language itself…language bring gender to life.
We are constantly coming up with new names..we find ourselves in a culural moment where how we think about gender, and human sociology in general..”self-defination”. thanks to things like internet, ..each of us gets to define who we are to the world on our own terms, and we can tweak those definitions over the course of our lives. …experiences that are in constant evolution.
Gossip serves three main purposes:
– to circulate personal information in order to keep members of a social group in the know;
– to bond with one another by establishing the gossipers as an in-group; and
– to affirm the group’s commitment to certain values or norms.
According to linguistst, the way that these speech qualities are perceived has way less to do with the things being said and way more to do with who’s saying it. …judgements about linguistic prestige depend a whole lot on how we feel about the speaker.
the ways in which women and many other socially oppressed folks empower themselves with language are all rather connected..there is a simple way we can be part of the shift toward a less judgemental linguistic future; instead of acting crochety and pedantic toward new language trends, we can feel curious and fascinated by them.
There’s a reason why suffixes and noun agreement have been at the center of the French feminist movement in a way that they haven’t…the sexist implications are out in the open, jumping up and down across every part of speech.
Consistently interrupting women as they’re speaking is a similar ploy for control…In a way, catcalling, interruption, disregarding a woman by woman by telling her she’s crazy, and other forms of sliencing are in response to this gradual challenging of the power scales.