Language and gender

Language is communication practice mediated by linguistic system. The field of linguistics anthropology and sociolinguistics offer a platform upon which communication practices can be broadly defined in a manner that allows a space for discourse on language and gender. This requires paralinguistic and pragmatic considerations that tap from integration of the social locus of inguistic practice and linguistic system as deployed by the category and group under consideration. This is in acknowledgment of the fact that neither language nor social world comes ready made and neither it is static. It is nurtured and maintained under mutual day to day activities. This article therefore discusses how language is used to establish and maintain gender order and gender categorization and gender discourse. The discussion will show how dominant gender ideologies are reinforced in day to day talk and communication discourses and the perceived or perpetrated gender ideologies inherent in the communications