lunes, 27 de agosto de 2012

Language and Gender

I
Read the lyrics of "Just a Girl" by No Doubt and "I'm a Man" by Black Strobe and analyze the use of language answering the following questions:
1.- How do their genders influence their language?
2.- How do they address men a women?
3.- What are these songs telling about society?
4.- Are these songs talking about any particular stereoype?

Answers.
1.- In how deep the lyrics are presented and the way the woman  is "able" to talk about her fealings.
2.- Women are addressed as a thing with no rights, and men are addressed as a "sex machine".
3.- We are still in a society full of stereotypes, prejudice and differences in between genders.
4.- Yes, the typical men-women stereotype.

II
Read the lyrics of "If I were a boy" by Beyoncé Knowles and "It's a man's world" by Joss Stone and analyze the use of the language answering the following questions:
1.- How do their genders influence their language?
2.- How do they adress manhood?
3.- What are these songs telling about society?
4.- What parts of the songs you would take out to make it more "neutral"

Answers.
1.- They describe their feelings and what they think from a feminist view.
2.- As imperfect beings that want everything for 'em and don't really care about women.
3.- Men don't care about women and they diserve something better.
4.- Yes, the last part of both songs.

                 For me Language has an important role in gender, we can identify which gender is writting by seeing the way it's told; men are not expressive, not as much as women (stereotyping of course), they love adjectives and tell what they feel and think. Also throughout story language has differenced men and women, as they are "sides", feminism and machism, something that had become in man ocations in fights in between bith genders.

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