Gender, sex, and language in Valencia
Attitudes toward sex-related language among Spanish and Catalan speakers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4943160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José Santaemilia (0000-0002-2845-5483, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 2008 |
| Issue | 190 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl.2008.010 |
| OpenAlex | W2024403536 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article includes two parts: the first part is a review of the work which is being done in Valencia in the field of gender, sex(uality), and language. The land of Valencia (the old “Kingdom of Valencia”), once an independent political entity, is now part of today's constitutional Spain, and its history is a dynamic mixture of religious, cultural, and political traditions. In Valencia two languages and cultures coexist: Spanish (as the dominant language) and Catalan (or “Valencian,” in a situation of diglossia or “asymmetric bilingualism”). While both are Romance languages and have important linguistic similarities, Spanish and Catalan differ significantly as to their legal situation, political status, literary tradition, or degree of (in)formality. The second part of the article presents the discussions of a questionnaire on sex-related language (SL), held with two groups of undergraduates at the University of Valencia whose native languages were, respectively, Spanish and Catalan. Students discuss their ideas of what “sex(uality)” is; the texts or communicative situations in which they use SL; the sex-related words or expressions which they are (un)likely to use; how they are affected by SL (whether they are offended, embarrassed, etc.); their attitudes towards certain SL manifestations (dirty jokes, swearing, insults, or erotic literature); the connection between SL manifestations and gender; and so on
Catalan · Formality · Linguistics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Political science · Politics · Romance languages · Sociology · Valencia · Valencian · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2015 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |