Gender Flashcards

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Overt

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Using standard English
Gives someone prestige in respectable society
Women more than men

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Covert

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Non standard English
Prestige rebellious and independent
Men more than women

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Marked term

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Reveal someone’s gender e.g. Policeman wife

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Unmarked term

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Don’t reveal someone’s gender

E.g. Police officer, spouse, partner

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Suffix

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Some words marked by feminism suffix
Implies male version is the original & norm = superior

E.g. Actress, comedienne

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Generic term

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Marked term refers to both women and men
Usually masculine term ‘man,mankind’

Represents people in general

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Negative semantic space

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Terms ignoring women

Everyone assumes noun doctor is male

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Lexical asymmetry

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Pairs of words, similar meaning but arn’t equally balanced
E.g. Bachelor and spinster
Same denotation
Different connotations

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Dale spender 1980

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Her book man made language

Males are superior
Syntax - when one gender placed before another = Mr, Mrs & men and women, husband and wife

Males have more power in society, more power than women

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Hoey 2005 lexical priming

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Extent to which gender in embedded in our language

Adjective good = collocation of noun girl
Adjective bad = collocation of noun boy

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Semantic derogation

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Meaning of a word becomes more negative overtime

E.g spinster

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George Keith & john Shuttleworth

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Women talk more than men, talk too much, super polite

Men swear more, don’t ask about emotions, talk about sport

Etc

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