Social Cognition of Gender and Language

Subject Areas : Iranian Sociological Review

Ebrahim Sheikhzadeh ¹

1 - Department of Foreign Languages, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2016-07-11 Accepted : 2016-07-11 Published : 2016-03-01

Keywords: social, Cognition, Language, gender theories, social construct,

Abstract :

The question, Do men and women use language differently played a central part in the emergence offeminist socio linguistics more than two decades ago, and it casts a long shadow. This paper focuses on theliterature that has contributed to the understanding of the major research questions underlying two majorstrands, language and gender, concentrating on the development of the literature from the deficit and dominancemodels to the social constructivist era of post-modernism in order to provide a context for recent developmentsin language and gender theories. This article tries to investigate the social cognition of gender and language.