Armenian Folia Anglistika (Oct 2011)

On Some Problems of Sex-Oriented Linguistic Behavior in Modern English

  • Gohar Harutyunyan,
  • Ashkhen Mkrtchyan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2011.7.2.025
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 2 (9)

Abstract

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The article investigates the linguistic expressions of sex as a decisive social factor. An attempt is made to question the topicality of some of the characteristics of female speech elaborated by R. Lakoff which later turned into generally accepted beliefs.