MUJERES LINGÜISTAS EN EL ÁMBITO DE LOS ESTUDIOS SOCIOLINGÜÍSTICOS

Abstract

Here we will study variation in the use of language by women and men, paying attention to Sex as a variable; or better, we will study those features determined by sociolinguistic studies as linguistic uses characteristic of women’s speech, in the way they mirror the social roles women take in various speaking communities. A voiding other aspects that relate language and women, I will only refer to the language studies concemed with women and men, such as the analysis of some verbal forms called malecentred (androcéntricas); the use of sexist references and metaphor; the legitimacy or non legitimacy of “sexist” meanings in dictionaries; women’s writing; the absence of women writers in the literary canon; etc; all of them interesting topics not only for Sociolinguistics, but also the History of Language, Stylistics, Lexicology, Lexicography, or even Literary Criticismo.