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In his Growth and Structure of the English Language, Otto Jespersen noted how few diminutives English has, and how little it uses them.
The Feminist Critique of Language brings together a wide range of views and approaches to its subject, ranging from the conservative linguist Otto Jespersen and the author Virginia Woolf writing in the 1920s to contemporary critics.
Jespersen may have overstated the case, but there is no doubt that whereas no Hispanic male would hesitate to call a little pig a chanchito , few American men would care to be heard calling one a piglet .
Most investigators, feminist and nonfeminist alike, agree that women's vernacular differs from men's: Jespersen listed adjectives favored by women, noted women's use of “little” intensifiers.
According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.