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Cognitive Effects of Masculine Generics in German: An Overview of Empirical Findings [PDF]
Communications: the European Journal of Communication Research, 2005 This article presents a series of experiments which were conducted among native speakers of German to determine the influence of different types of German generics on the cognitive inclusion of women. Results indicate that the inclusion of women is higher with ‘non-sexist’ alternatives than with masculine generics, a tendency which was consistent ...
Sabine Sczesny
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Are Second Person Masculine Generics Easier to Process for Men than for Women? Evidence from Polish [PDF]
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022 In Polish, it is obligatory to mark feminine or masculine grammatical gender on second-person singular past tense verbs (e.g., Dostałaś list ‘You received-F a letter’).
Agnieszka Szuba +2 more
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A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several biases associated with how gender is linguistically realized in language.
Pascal Mark Gygax +7 more
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The fallacy of generics in the UK [PDF]
, 1988 By clarifying what is meant by brands, own labels and generics this paper shows that neo-generics, rather than generics, were launched in the UK.
de Chernatony, Leslie
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Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements [PDF]
Discourse Processes, 2022 An eye-tracking experiment was conducted with speakers of Dutch (N=84, 36 male), a language that falls in between grammatical and natural gender languages. We tested whether a masculine generic pronoun causes a male bias when used in generic statements, that is, in the absence of a specific referent.
Theresa Redl +4 more
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Alcohol use and generational masculinity [PDF]
Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2017 Introduction: Alcohol ranks as a major risk factor for health-related harm and mortality. Older males who encounter alcohol problems late in life are an under-studied part of the affected population. This article seeks to broaden our understanding of this group by combining empirical data with humanistic ...
Emiliussen, Jakob, Morrison, Alastair
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The Extinction of Masculine Generics [PDF]
, 2012 In English, as in many other languages, male-gendered pronouns are sometimes used to refer not only to men, but to individuals whose gender is unknown or unspecified, to human beings in general (as in ―mankind‖) and sometimes even to females (as when the
Earp, Brian D.
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Why generics failed in the UK : lessons for less developed countries [PDF]
, 1988 School of ...
de Chernatony, Leslie
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Safer typing of complex API usage through Java generics [PDF]
, 2009 When several incompatible implementations of a single API are in use in a Java program, the danger exists that instances from different implementations may inadvertently be mixed, leading to errors.
Lievens, D., Simeoni, F., Harrison, W.
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On Sexism in Language and Language Change – The Case of Peninsular Spanish
Linguistik Online, 2011 The Spanish language has been described as a sexist language due to the peculiar characteris-tics of its gender morphology. It is indicated by the o ('masculine') and a ('feminine') gender morphemes which generally represent male and female respectively.
Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey
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