Social Colloquialisms

Research Proposal # 104056

Gender and Sexuality > Gender Studies
Language > English: Linguistics
Linguistics

A research proposal on social labeling and its significance, with a focus on the subject of gender.

1,186 words () | 5 sources | APA | 2008 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper relates that social labeling is identified as qualifying terms attached to specific constructs found within general social interactions. The paper explains that the purpose of this study is to identify those social colloquialisms that are used to identify gender within common parlance. The paper states the scope of the study, the research questions, the methods of assessment as well as the format and timetable.

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From the Paper:

"The pervasiveness of social labeling has resulted in the investigation of these words as representative of values shared throughout a specific society. Early research by Brooks-Gunn and Lewis (1979), for example, sought to identify why children between 9 to 24 months of age were more likely to associate the label "daddy" with an authority figure while the label "mommy" was more likely to be associated with a nurturing figure. The authors found that these two terms were heavily saturated within information communicated to infants and children, such as nursery rhymes, and that the children absorbed these social labels without attaching any qualifying information to these terms."

Sample of Sources Used:

Brenneis, D. (1977). "Turkey," "Weinie," "Animal," "Stud,": Intragroup variation in folk speech. Western Folklore. 36(3). 328 - 256.
Brooks-Gunn, J. & Lewis, M. (1979). "Why Mama and Papa?" The development of social labels. Child Development. 50 (4). 1203 - 1206.
Ferrance, E. (2000). Action research. Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University.
Jackson, P. S. (1998). Bright star -- black sky: A phenomenological study of depression as a window into the psyche of the gifted adolescent Roeper Review. 1998 Feb 20(3) 215-221
Milroy, J. (2005). Variability, language change, and the history of English. International Journal of English Studies. 5(1). 1 - 11.