Spaces and Silence in Women's Language
By ZarghoonaMalik
Spaces of silence in women‘s language
Silence can mean many things because it is so ambiguous. It can replace speech to show feelings. It can express many different emotions ranging from joy, happiness, grief, embarrassment to anger, denial, fear, withdrawal of acceptance or love. Traditionally silence means the absence of voice, but the word silence is metaphorically used for women in the field of Feminist linguistics. This does not literary mean that women are unable to speak or they speak less rather feminists are in the view that women talk too much and they labeled the word “gossip” with women. However, here silence means the absence of women’s voice from high literary culture. Women’s voice is absent from most of formal discourses. There is limited space for women in political, social, religious and legal discourse. Women are not by nature silent but they are silenced by the sexism of society as a whole.
The silence of women in society
Everyone has the right of freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and convey information and ideas without obstruction by public power. However, in our society the situation is somewhat opposite. In our society though women have equal right to speak, they have also mature articulated systems, they are also cognitively sharp and developed, despite the fact that men and women possess same system, men declared women as secondary object of their possession. In our society women are by birth be silenced. If in our society a baby boy takes birth, the parent celebrates his birth anniversary with great solemnity and gun shoot but if a baby girl takes birth, they not only celebrate with shush and hush even fell disgrace. When she grows up again discrimination comes, the parents admit her in government school, while they admit boys in private school because they think that woman is the source of expenditure while man is the source of earning due to this concept
Spaces of silence in women‘s language
Silence can mean many things because it is so ambiguous. It can replace speech to show feelings. It can express many different emotions ranging from joy, happiness, grief, embarrassment to anger, denial, fear, withdrawal of acceptance or love. Traditionally silence means the absence of voice, but the word silence is metaphorically used for women in the field of Feminist linguistics. This does not literary mean that women are unable to speak or they speak less rather feminists are in the view that women talk too much and they labeled the word “gossip” with women. However, here silence means the absence of women’s voice from high literary culture. Women’s voice is absent from most of formal discourses. There is limited space for women in political, social, religious and legal discourse. Women are not by nature silent but they are silenced by the sexism of society as a whole.
The silence of women in society
Everyone has the right of freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and convey information and ideas without obstruction by public power. However, in our society the situation is somewhat opposite. In our society though women have equal right to speak, they have also mature articulated systems, they are also cognitively sharp and developed, despite the fact that men and women possess same system, men declared women as secondary object of their possession. In our society women are by birth be silenced. If in our society a baby boy takes birth, the parent celebrates his birth anniversary with great solemnity and gun shoot but if a baby girl takes birth, they not only celebrate with shush and hush even fell disgrace. When she grows up again discrimination comes, the parents admit her in government school, while they admit boys in private school because they think that woman is the source of expenditure while man is the source of earning due to this concept