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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

Name your favorite musician: Effects of masculine generics and of their alternatives in German

, 2001
Feminist linguists claim that masculine forms used in a generic sense (e.g. he referring to a doctor irrespective of sex) facilitate the cognitive representation of men compared to women and make women less visible.
Stahlberg, Dagmar, Sczesny, Sabine, Braun, Friederike   +2 more
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A content analysis of gender representation in primary school Heritage-Social Studies textbooks in Zimbabwe

The Dyke
The study explores gender representation in grades 4 to 7 Heritage – Social Studies textbooks available to teachers, and learners in Zimbabwe Primary Schools.
Daniel Mawere
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

Masculinity and fatherhood: General image of a man's identity as a father [PDF]

Kultura, 2015
This paper sets up a general framework for sociological study of the identity of fathers. Having in mind that popular discourses as well as professional circles debate more and more often about the crisis of masculinity which also involves questioning and new forms of male parental practices, the issues of fatherhood have grown especially appealing to ...
openaire   +1 more source

Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of Ocean Warming on Sex Ratio of Yellow Striped Butterfish Labracoglossa argentiventris Around the Izu Islands, Japan

Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marine ecosystems are experiencing warming events in various regions of the world. Thus, many fish species and populations are now being impacted by the warmer water temperature conditions. Previous studies have reported temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) in various fish species.
Junichi Iijima, Akinori Takasuka
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting gender-fair language: The impact of arguments on language use, attitudes, and cognitions

, 2014
The present research investigates whether arguments encourage speakers to use and to approve of gender-fair language. We collected and pretested arguments regarding gender-fair language and masculine generics and created four messages which supported ...
Sczesny, Sabine, Koeser, Sarah
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Grammatical gender in French: its impact on the interpretation of social gender in generic hybrid nouns

, 2023
There is a growing interest among researchers working on French in the way grammatical gender in this language affects speakers' mental representations about social gender (e.g. Gygax et al. 2013, Gygax et al 2019, Richy & Burnett 2021).
Benjamin Storme, Laura Delaloye Saillen
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Generation Z: Concept of Masculinity in Courtship Discourse

Psychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal
The concept of masculinity has various meanings based on Filipino thought, which is also associated with the man having his own family, the foundation of society, making it essential to strengthen relationships, especially for parents that starts during courtship.
Papiona, John Mark, Silvano, Lislie, Urgil, Nelson, Amat, Aldwin   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source