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SLANGS AND GENDER A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

Dr. Barnali Chetia


Slangs come in various hues with their very own resources and contexts. This paper attempts a study to analyze the sociolinguistic aspect of slangs and their consequent impact on gender. The popular slangs in the Western world and India were analyzed and the causes were investigated. The commodification of women as seen from the usage of slangs in the Indian society was also analyzed. This paper, further, dealt with the effect slangs had on gender and the impact of media on the evolution of slangs. The study is based on responses to questionnaires and the data are analyzed using elementary statistics.