- Title
- Language And Gender Interaction In Bakossi Proverbial Discourse
- Creator
- Enongene Mirabeau Sone
- Subject
- Language use, gender, sexist, sexism, Bakossi, proverbs, discourse
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Journal Article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/2616
- Identifier
- vital:42294
- Description
- Language can be seen as a systematic means which human beings use in the communication of thoughts, ideas, values, norms and feelings. As a pervasive aspect of our lives, it is a verbal means with which we communicate and conduct social interaction. This paper examines specific aspects of proverbial language of the Bakossi people of the South West Region of Cameroon and determines through a feminist analysis how this language use illustrates in-built sexist connotation in the sense that it generally indicates positive things for males while negative connotations are assumed for women. Proverbs, pronominal forms and idiomatic expressions are collected and analysed to ascertain the above argument. The evidence in this paper serves as a reference point for women of sexism that is built into language use in these old pithy sayings which are meant to encapsulate pearls of wisdom
- Format
- Publisher
- California Linguistic Notes, Vol 40(1), Spring 2016
- Language
- English
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