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A computer-generated face database with ratings on realism, masculinity, race, and stereotypy [PDF]

Behavior Research Methods, 2010
Ratings of realism, masculinity, race, and racial stereotypy were collected on a set of computer-generated faces representing European, South East Asian, and African American ethnicities. To determine if these faces are processed in the same way as photographs of real faces, we demonstrated with these faces superior memory performance for upright faces
Heath E, Matheson, Patricia A, McMullen
openaire   +2 more sources

Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

Mikroaggressionen in der deutschen Sprache: Eine grammatische und lexikalische Analyse subtiler Diskriminierungsformen und deren Einfluss auf die Inklusivität der Sprache [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
This study investigates the subtle forms of discrimination in the German language, known as microaggressions, which can manifest both grammatically and lexically.
Julia Kaiser
doaj   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

The Gender of Heteroclites1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
wiley   +1 more source

Lenguaje (no) sexista en la política española: el papel de la ideología y del género discursivo

Moderna Språk
This paper offers an empirical study on the use of (non-)sexist language in Spanish political discourse. By analyzing both parliamentary speech and Twitter/X posts, the study seeks to determine the extent to which politicians avoid the generic masculine
Marlies Jansegers, Linde Roels, Sarah Damman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Czech gender linguistics: Topics, attitudes, perspectives

Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 2020
The aim of the present article is to analyse the existing publications dealing with Czech gender linguistics, and attitudes of their authors. Firstly, the authors of the article present an overview of the development of the discipline, beginning with ...
Vít Kolek, Jana Valdrová
doaj   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Does gender-fair language pay off? The social perception of professions from a cross-linguistic perspective

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
In many languages, masculine forms (e.g., German Lehrer, ‘teachers, masc.’) have traditionally been used to refer to both women and men, although feminine forms are available, too.
Lisa Kristina Horvath, Lisa Kristina Horvath, Elisa Franziska Merkel, Elisa Franziska Merkel, Anne eMaass, Sabine eSczesny   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source