Gender representation in different languages and grammatical marking on pronouns: when beauticians, musicians, and mechanics remain men [PDF]
, 2012 Gygax, Gabriel, Sarrasin, Oakhill, and Garnham (2008) showed that readers form a mental representation of gender that is based on grammatical gender in French and German (i.e., masculine supposedly interpretable as a generic form) but is based on ...
Gabriel, Ute +4 more
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Big boys don't cry: Depression and men [PDF]
, 2008 Men are a numerical minority group receiving a diagnosis of, and treatment for, depression. However, community surveys of men and of their mental health issues (e.g. suicide and alcoholism) have led some to suggest that many more men have depression than
Branney, P, White, A
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Gender a Výzkum, 2023 Criticising the use of the generic masculine, feminist and gender linguists have proposed different alternatives. In the Czech context, the following three types of alternatives can be distinguished: (1) feminisation, (2) neutralisation and paraphrases ...
Vít Kolek
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Questioning the Usage of Generic Masculine and Reflection of Objective Reality with Regard to the Function of Language (Demonstrated on the Slovak and English Examples) [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2020 The English language uses dual gender which is an umbrella term for including fe/males, e.g. student, doctor, teacher, president, minister, opponent, etc. In Slavic languages, e.g. in the Slovak language it works differently. Suffixes reflect grammatical
Jesenská Petra
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Changing Gender Relations in Canada: The Rise of Gender-Neutral Forenames. [PDF]
Can Rev SociolABSTRACT Historically, gender‐neutral or androgynous first names have been relatively rare, showing little sign of upward or downward temporal trend in Canada or elsewhere. Using digitized birth registration records from three provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario) and for all of Canada, we highlight a rise, beginning around 1990, in the ...
Guppy N, Kolpashnikova K.
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Altering male-dominant representations:a study on nominalized adjectives and participles in first and second language German [PDF]
, 2016 The generic use of masculine plural forms in grammatical gender languages has been criticized for activating unequal gender representations that are male dominant.
Gabriel, Ute +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Employing a linguistic-visual paradigm, we investigated whether the grammaticization of gender information impacts readers’ gender representations. French and German were taken as comparative languages, taking into account the male gender bias associated
Sayaka eSato +3 more
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A Review of the North American Species of the Genus Otites Latreille, with Descriptions of Two New Species (Diptera: Otitidae) [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: In 1961 (Steyskal, 1961), I placed the genus Otites in a key to the North American genera of Otitidae and indicated the synonymy of the genus Ortalimyia.
Steyskal, George C.
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„Aus Gründen der Verständlichkeit ...“: Der Einfluss generisch maskuliner und alternativer Personenbezeichnungen auf die kognitive Verarbeitung von Texten [PDF]
, 2007 Gegen geschlechtergerechte Sprache wird häufig eingewandt, dass sie die Qualität und die kognitive Verarbeitung von Texten beeinträchtige. Um diese Annahme zu testen, lasen 86 deutschsprachige Teilnehmende drei verschiedene Versionen einer fiktiven ...
Bosak, Janine +4 more
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Needing to be 'in the know': strategies of subordination used by 10-11 year-old schoolboys [PDF]
, 2003 It is important for educators to understand the tactics used in subordination between young people if they are going to take effective measures to counter them in their pedagogical practice.
Swain, Jon
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