Language and (Wo)Men’s Place in 21st Century Romania
Language and (Wo)Men’s Place in 21st Century Romania

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to offer a quantitative analysis of gender preferential differences between the speech of men and women in Romanian. We test the hypothesis that men use swearing, taboo language and vernacular forms more frequently than women and that women have a preference for the standard forms – and discuss thusly the deficit, dominance, difference and dynamic approaches to language and gender. Starting from these analyses we will extrapolate as to whether, if this is the case, it can tell us something about gender variation in Romanian society more broadly. This study is based on two research projects: the first one carried out in 2010 in Constanţa and Bucharest, and the second one in 2011 in Constanţa.

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