The father of modern linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
A common non-linguistic label for a linguistic variable
shibboleth
Who focused the attention on certain themes with the language and gender complex above those which she rightly felt were in need of rectifying?
Robin Lakoff
The development of sociolinguistics is bound up with the activity of
William Labov
A language which is used as a means of communication among those groups who do not speak each other’s language
lingua franca
To desexify language means
to remove inherently sexist structures
The Received Pronunciation first used by the early twentieth-century phonetician
Daniel Jones
It occurs when speakers move from one language to another and back again within the same sentence
code-switching
The first act of genderisation of gender roles is
the giving of names
Esperanto is an artificial language invented by the Polish scholar
Ludwig Zamenhof
The term is applied to those situations in which a language ceases to exist
Language death
Speak about the language used by a woman
it is said to be powerless and emotional
"Language and woman's place" is written by
Robin Lakoff
The term is applied to a language which has died out and be revived
language revival
How language contributes to stereotypes?
The link between stereotypes and language use is generally seen as two-directional. That is, stereotypes are reflected in the language use of speakers, and language use, in turn, feeds social-category stereotypes in message recipients.