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The present essay attempts to explore the role of gender-based language
differences and of certain markers that reveal the status accorded to women in
Bangladesh. Discrimination against women, in its various forms, is endemic in
communities and countries around the world, cutting across class, race, age, and religious
and national boundaries. One cannot understand the problems of gender discrimination
solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between men and women.
Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation in
which the image of masculinity and femininity is constructed and reconstructed.
Following such line of reasoning this essay will examine the nature of gender bias in the
Bengali language of Bangladesh, holding the conviction that as a product of social reality
language reflects the socio-cultural behaviour of the community who speaks it. This essay
will also attempt to shed some light on the processes through which gender based
language differences produce actual consequences for women, who become exposed to
low self-esteem, depression and systematic exclusion from public discourse.
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Género Bangladesh Língua Representação Práticas Gender Bangladesh Language Representation Practices
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Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto