Language Gender and Culture Essay
Language, Gender, and Culture Essay In our world there are so people that are being overrated, from their skin color, to how they talk or to where they came from or the way they walk, everything from what people wear to where people come from and their ethnic background. These people are looked down on from the rest of society for just being themselves and doing only what they know to do. For some, it’s wrong if others do not act just like them and they put them down for it. Stereotypes can be described someone of a certain race, religion, gender, nationality, or other groups. You can see that language, gender, and culture (class and race) does relate to power because men’s have more power than women’s, the way you speak, your education, income, and many more. In the article “His Politeness Is Her Powerlessness” by Deborah Tannen, Tannen main point of the article was to show that no matter what happens, women’s are mostly seen as powerless and men’s can be powerful. In the article, Tannen says, “A man might ask woman, ‘Will you please go to the store?’… ‘Gee, I really need a few things from the store, but I’m so tires’” (Tannen 120). Tannen proves that when woman’s is being or ask indirectly, her style is covert, and negative quality. Woman’s feel like they don’t have right to ask indirectly. This relates to power because gender plays big role especially for men’s. If men’s speaks or ask indirectly, then they are seen in being polite, high status, and prove that they have more power then women. But, when it comes to women’s direct way of asking or speaking, the men’s sees the women’s style as clumsy and rude. The men’s always sees women’s style as negative, powerless and in lower status than them. In the article, “Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” by Audre Lorde, Lorde’s illustrates the main idea of breaking silence and standing up for yourself, also make your fear into you strength and power. Lorde illustrates that you should break your