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Gender and Grammar in Chinese: With Implications for
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Catherine S. Farris
1988; 14; 277
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Gender and Grammar in Chinese
With Implications for Language Universals
CATHERINE S. FARRIS
University of Washington
The significance of the encoding of sex and gender for questions
about the relationship between language and culture, and between
language and thought, is just beginning to be explored systemati-
cally.’ Language and gender research, arising within the tradition
of Western feminist theory, has overrelied on examples from Indo-
European languages and cultures and has, moreover, not inte-
grated this research very well with the current discourse on the
nature and meaning of language in culture and
In much of the literature on language and gender there is an as-
sumed but not well documented relation between the extent of
patriarchal bias in a culture and what has e known as sexism
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Earlier drafts of this article were presented at the China Program Col-
loquim, Jackson School for International Studies, University of Washington, March 1987;
the Association of Asian Studies meeting Individual Paper Session, Boston, April 1987;
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University of Washington, June 1987. I am grateful for ments. I benefited
from critical reviews of the a