POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

Question 1

Cameron

Answer 1

-Verbal Hygiene (1995)= women’s lang in the work place seen as too feminine to be taken seriously, the lang we use can have social consequences (defended the use of PC)

Question 2

Performance Approach

Answer 2

• linguists in 1990s took a social constructive approach to lang and gender
• social constructivism= the importance of social interaction as constructing identity and people coming together to form a shared construction of the world