The Interface Between Language and Cultural Conceptualisations of Gender in Interaction: The Case of Greek

Abstract

The studies on language and gender seem to share the assumption that language mediates speakers’ cognition. In claiming that gender is constructed through linguistic practices and language maintains gender inequality, feminist linguists imply or presuppose that language has a cognitive role, namely, that it ‘affects’ or guides the way in which speakers interpret experience. However, the relation between language and cognition is not addressed by studies on language and gender in an articulate or concrete manner. The chapter aims at filling this gap, by exploring the language, gender and cognition interface through the lens of an intersection approach that relies heavily on the principles and analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)