Ijem, B., & Agbo, I. (2019).

Language and Gender Representation in Chinua Achebe's" Things

Fall Apart". English Language Teaching, 12(11), 55-63.

In their study, it was established that men and women are cast in a different light, a

scenario enabled by language. The varied ways men and women are seen in pre-colonial

Igbo society are reflected in Achebe's linguistic choices. Gender prejudice and gendered

role specifications give the male gender more privilege, honor, and riches, while the

feminine gender is treated as an afterthought. Furthermore, this research takes an eclectic

approach, using elements from Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model,

Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and Psychoanalytic Theory. Overall,

this research found that culture has a direct impact on language use, and that language

puts men and women in unequal positions. As a result, in Achebe's Things Fall Apart,

women are shown as ordinary individuals who can only be seen but not heard.

Janet, H. (2012). Language and Gender Construction.

https://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/programmes/MCS/Symp%2012/S1_P2.pdf

The author, Ho Wai Man Janet, looked at the connection between language and gender

from a sociolinguistic perspective. The research looked at two famous studies undertaken

in the United Kingdom and the United States, respectively, by Trugill (1972) and Lakoff

(1966). According to the study, men and women have different language patterns, with

men's linguistic pattern being termed "unmarked form" and any change being labeled

"marked form," and women being more likely than men to use the standard version of a

language. The study investigated how men and women utilized language to act their

genders and meet the societal expectations and gender roles that were forced on them,

based on Trugill and Lakoff's research. The "pure" and "good" qualities of a language's
standard form and norms are related to feminine features that women are thought to

possess.