Weeks 8-10 Flashcards
Develop full understanding of the terms and concepts in the terminology tracker from weeks 8-10
Intersectionality
This is the name given to if someone has different elements of identity such as gender, race, sexuality, ability, that create extra levels of discrimination based on the intersection created by these elements of identity.
Genderlect
The idea that different genders cause language to differ in conversational style, meaning, and paradigms.
Culture defense
The argument that any inequalities and power imbalances between genders seen in a culture can be explained and defended by cultural traditions and practices (using culture as a defense).
Dominance paradigm in genderlect research
This approach views the two languages spoken by men and women in a hierarchy, with men’s language as dominant, while women speak a powerless, inferior language.
Difference paradigm in genderlect research
This approach views the two languages spoken by men and women as explained by the conditioning and different socialisation that women and men are exposed to, therefore their conversational styles are developed differently.
Tannen’s male/female values underpinning differences in conversational styles
Tannen suggests that your gender determines what you value in conversation. They suggest that men value status, independence, advice, information, orders and conflict, whereas women value support, intimacy, understanding/sharing, feelings, proposal, compromise.
A binary person
A person who feels comfortable identifying with a binary gender, male or female.
A non-binary person
A person who doesn’t identify with either binary genders, male or female.
A fakaleiti person
This translates to ‘like a lady’ and is used to describe a certain category of transgender people in the South Pacific. There is no term in English, or in Western definitions that matches this perfectly.
An hijra person
This term is used in India for a third gender, one that is neither male nor female.
A kathoey person
This is a third category of sexes, and a term that is used in Thailand for people likening to intersex or hermaphrodite.
A two-spirit person
This term is used in some Native American tribes for people with “two spirits” and were a category of gender-ambiguous people.
Gender inclusive language
Gender inclusive or gender-neutral language avoids the use of gendered terms or bias towards a certain gender, such as male terms for roles, professions and other blanket terms that use male biased language.
The Kina case
This court case involves an Aboriginal woman whose lawyers failed to communicate with her enough to collect evidence to present at her trial, and she was charged with murder. She later appealed on the basis of this and successfully had her charges reduced.
The Pinkenba case
This court case involved charges against police officers for taking three young Aboriginal boys and abandoning them out of town. In the courtroom, use of Aboriginal English was used against the young boys to manipulate their responses against them.
