Lenguage y géneroaproximaciones desde un marco teórico

Abstract

In this PhD dissertation, a research is made, in three chapters, on the relationship between grammatical and sexual gender, on the one hand, and the cultural symbolic allocation assigned to women and men, on the other. The observation of a fundamental ontological construction of a subject- creator and object-created is installed in our Culture and, thus, the accidental differences of grammatical gender are interpreted consequently as well. An allocation is established in a hierarchical and essential sex / gender system that replicates an androcentric and ideological linguistic system that denies the experience and voices of women. We rely on the assumptions of the non-neutrality of languages if they show this gendered system. We will enquire into how the sexual gender becomes conceptualized, becoming a cultural discourse that flattens meanings and its graphical representation, generationally, over time. Secondly, we admit that, although the gender difference is anchored in what is biological and happens before the semiotic process took place, the same distinction is socially and culturally constructed through a semiotic and linguistic process. Thirdly, human beings are shaped within gender by means of Culture, and gender characterizes the perception of everything else. Fourthly, we consider language not only a communication tool or a piece of knowledge, but also a power. Finally, we propose the existence of a primitive feminine gender from which the masculine is originated. Our work finishes with an update of Kate Millet's slogan: "the personal is political" that has now become "the political is personal".