Les recherches linguistiques sur le genre: Un état de l'art

Abstract

In this paper, we present the 'Gender and Language studies' a research area born in US in 1970s with the publication of Robin Lakoff's work on women language. We will proceed in three times. First, we will analyze the emergence of historical conditions of the field in the Francophone area. So, we refer first to Claire Michard, Anne-Marie Houdebine and Edwige Khaznadar's researches and we will see how this heritage has been questioned and reformulated by a new generations of researchers. Second, we come back to the emergence of the field in the anglophone area since Robin Lakoff to the most recent research inspired by the paradigms of domination, difference and of performance from 1970s to 1990s. It will be an opportunity to present to French readers an unknown theoretical corpus and to highlight its analytical and epistemological strength. Finally, we will ask some questions about the challenges that gender and language studies, and linguistics, may face in the futur.