Gender

Question 1

Overt

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Covert

Answer 2

Non standard English
Prestige rebellious and independent
Men more than women

Question 3

Marked term

Answer 3

Reveal someone’s gender e.g. Policeman wife

Question 4

Unmarked term

Answer 4

Don’t reveal someone’s gender

E.g. Police officer, spouse, partner

Question 5

Suffix

Answer 5

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

E.g. Actress, comedienne

Question 6

Generic term

Answer 6

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

Represents people in general

Question 7

Negative semantic space

Answer 7

Terms ignoring women

Everyone assumes noun doctor is male

Question 8

Lexical asymmetry

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Dale spender 1980

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Hoey 2005 lexical priming

Answer 10

Extent to which gender in embedded in our language

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

Question 11

Semantic derogation

Answer 11

Meaning of a word becomes more negative overtime

E.g spinster

Question 12

George Keith & john Shuttleworth

Answer 12

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

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

Etc