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Neutralising linguistic sexism: Promising but cumbersome?
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2018 The generic use of grammatically (or lexically) gender-marked nouns and pronouns (GM) to refer to women and men in Indo-European languages has been criticised as gender-asymmetric since the 1970s. Two main strategies for eliminating asymmetry have been suggested: visibility by feminisation and de-gendering by neutralisation.
Ute Gabriel +2 more
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A meta-analysis of women professional evolution in sports leadership [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2023 The underrepresentation of women in sports leadership positions raises significant concerns regarding equality and diversity. This study aims to explore the relationship between sports leadership and gender.
Chaymaa Lotfy +2 more
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Gender Ideologies in English and Slovene: A Contrastive View
ELOPE, 2014 The article deals with the concept of linguistic sexism in the cross-cultural context. It compares the generally accepted guidelines for avoiding linguistic sexism in English and Slovene, exemplified by two guides on non-sexist use of English.
Katja Plemenitaš
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Representations of Women in Visual-Linguistc Materialities in High School Portuguese Textbooks
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2021 This paper aims to analyze the social representations of women in Portuguese Textbooks (LDP) distributed in high school programs of state schools and selected based on the Guide of the National Textbook Program (PNLD) 2018.
Érica Rogéria da Silva +1 more
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Language as an instrument of policy
Ибероамериканские тетради, 2017 The purpose of this article is to show how in modern Spain the language is successfully used not only for defending their nationalist interests (linguistic nationalism), but also in the struggle against the structures of language, that reflect the gender ...
Elena Grinina
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Linguistic Sexism in The Times—A Diachronic Study
International Journal of English Linguistics, 2014 This paper discusses aspects of linguistic sexism in the British newspaper, The Times. Our approach is diachronic: we study occurrences of different types of linguistic sexism in The Times’ World news section that have occurred during the past five decades (1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, & 2005); more specifically, the following types of linguistic sexism and
Tarutuulia Laine, Greg Watson
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Prince Charming has Perfect White Teeth: Performativity and Media Education [PDF]
, 2006 This paper argues that Judith Butler’s post structuralist theory of performativity provides a valuable tool for understanding how students might contest prevailing hegemonic gender discourses in media education classrooms.
Dezuanni, Michael
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”The skill to see surprising things in the ordinary”
Ибероамериканские тетради, 2015 The article is dedicated to the scientific, pedagogical and social activity of the distinguished Spanish linguist, member of the Spanish Royal Academy and of the European Academy, Ignacio Bosque.
N. I. Tsareva
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“Chi dice donna dice…”. Le parole come strumento di infamia
Storia delle Donne, 2011 This study is a linguistic approach to “gender oriented” insulting. After touching on some generic features of linguistic aggression (already censored by Medieval treaty texts on the sins of the language) and of identity and diversity expressed via words,
Paolo D’Achille
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Teaching Inequality: A study of gender identity in EFL Textbooks [PDF]
, 2015 A command of English is recognised as vital for immigrants to Britain. Textbooks are used widely in learning the language but they cannot be assumed to be value free.
Musty, Nicholas
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