A Gendered Substructure of Language and Writing: Phallogocentricism

Exploring the Impact of Language and Writing on Gender Identity

Abstract

The following paper is a trial to throw light on the retrospective analysis of language formation. It attempts to propagate a formal anatomy of how common words, their relational clauses and general linguistic connotations that have become normalised across generations, are affected by, or still affect the subconscious of society being differential in the aspect of gendering members. It implicitly supports the title neologism that Jacques Derrida coined to refer to the capacitating of the masculine in the construction of meaning. The same is supported by Helen Cixous’ essay The Laugh of the Medusa.