Talk about The power and role language has and its relationship to social reality and also link to patriarchy.
Not to use in essay. Just to get a better understanding.If so paraphrase.
E.g. Chomsky (1982) argued that….. or Research has reliably demonstrated that complex language is universal (Chomsky, 1982).
Reality/perception-discourse
Linguistic relaitivity –when you speak a difference language you have a different perception relative-knowing a word gives you that extra procesision
Language is used as a tool to valitidate the state of society
Language is used to sustain inequality language is a factor in the generation of social realities. language mediates our sense of reality.
Feminists have long argued that the English language is littered with male-dominant expression
What can and cannot be socially constructed
Social Reality
For Searle,-look up and find reference language was the key to the formation of social reality because “language is precisely designed to be a self-identifying category of institutional facts” - a system of publicly and widely accepted symbols which “persist through time independently of the urges and inclinations of the participants.”
Virility refers to any of a wide range of masculine characteristics viewed positively. It is not applicable to women or to negative characteristics.
Social reality is the "universe" of socially constructed knowledge created by virtue of our social interactions. Social reality is grounded in our behavior, our languages, our culture and our institutional practices and colors almost all of our perception. Although it is largely the consequence of our shared inter-subjective practices, we nevertheless occupy it largely without ever becoming explicitly aware of its contingent and