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Demberg, Rebecca. "Linguistic sexism : A study of sexist language in a British online newspaper." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-36871.
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The aim of this study is to investigate the occurrence of sexist language-use in the British online newspaper The Daily Mail. The material consists of 162 articles that were analysed by using feminist stylistics. The scope of the study was limited to selected features from feminist stylistics at word- and discourse-level. The features of linguistic sexism analysed were the use of gendered generic words, naming of females and males and how female and male characters are described. The gender of the journalists was also analysed to examine if it affected the language-use in terms of sexism. The results show that linguistic sexism is expressed to some extent at both word-level and discourse-level. At word-level linguistic sexism is expressed inthe generic use of some masculine words, the difference of how first name and surname are used to refer to women and men and in the use of titles. At the level of discourse linguistic sexism is expressed in the difference of how women and men are referred to in terms of their relationship to others and in terms of appearance. The gender of the journalist did not show any significance for the language-use in terms of sexism. Considering the limited material of the study, the results might not be suitable for generalisations. The results are nonetheless interesting and it can be concluded that the toolkit of feminist stylistic is relevant to this day and that linguistic sexism exists to some extent in the online version of The Daily Mail.
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Ågren, Linda. "Linguistic sexism in mermaid tales : a study of linguistic sexism involving the mermaid figure in films." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för lärande och miljö, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-11764.
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Swickard, Nancy E. "Girl is a four-letter word : gender biased image and language." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1014802.
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The purpose of my graduate thesis creative project, Girl Is a Four-Letter Word: Gender Biased Imaqe and Language is to call attention to the subliminal messages about stereotypical female qualities and female role expectations transmitted through the use of our language. My focus is on classroom visuals and reading textbooks used in the 1950s and 1960s, which illustrate very separate paths of gender social development. I have created a series of twenty-two paintings, in which I have juxtaposed images inspired from old textbooks and mild four-letter words to illustrate double-entendre associations and implied sexual innuendoes in everyday language.The creative project began with extensive research to find examples of textbooks from the 1950s, to review the textbooks in the historical context of America's educational goals and to study artists who have investigated themes of language and meaning of images in their work. Specific artists researched who have explored these ideas historically include Rene Magritte, Jasper Johns and Barbara Kruger. The actual artworks of several abstract expressionists were examined closely because of a similarity in painting technique and style.The paintings produced for this thesis project were executed with oil paint on recycled stretched canvases. Thick paints were applied straight from the tube and layered in thick impasto. The composition of all paintings include a vignetted image or isolated object in the center of the canvas with a label placed below, similar to the format of flashcards used for learning to read. The image and words together create a relationship pointing out blatant gender-biased associations, displayed with tongue-in-cheek humor.<br>Department of Art
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Archer, Erika. "Attitudes and practices regarding the generic masculine pronouns in Hong Kong." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19739850.
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Hawken, Leanne. "Teaching nonsexist language." Scholarly Commons, 1996. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2299.
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Studies have shown that people are opposed to writing in nonsexist language and that attempts to teach nonsexist language have been unsuccessful in causing people to change their writing styles. Previous studies focused on how to write in nonsexist language, but did not focus on why using nonsexist language is important. In the present study an attempt was made to change attitudes toward sexist language, as well as to teach how to write in nonsexist language by comparing two methods of teaching nonsexist language. All participants completed an interactive computer program that taught nonsexist language. The experimental group then discussed/role played the importance of writing in nonsexist language whereas the control group discussed/role played ethical issues involved in experimental research. Groups were compared on their attitudes towards sexist language using the Hawken Sexist Language Questionnaire, designed for this study. Groups were also compared on how well they recognized sexist language using the Gender-Specific Language Scale and wrote in nonsexist language when answering six short essay questions.
Results showed no difference between the experimental group and the control group on any of the dependent measures post-intervention or during a 3-week follow-up. Implications for future research are discussed.
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Roos, Beverley. "Women and the Word : issues of power, control and language in social and religious life." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16636.
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Bibliography: pages 151-157.<br>The intention of this thesis is to offer a perspective on the current debate over women's place in Western religious institutions, i.e. the Judaeo-Christian tradition; and to provide a way of thinking about those issues which will lead to a positive, progressive and realistic vision of co-humanity, and a method of achieving it. The thorny battleground of the "women's debate", as it is inaccurately named, was not my original choice of thesis topic. A lifelong commitment to feminist principles has been matched with an equally lengthy wariness regarding society's attitude towards such matters. Also, the understandable obsession of South African religious studies departments, and journals, with the issue of racism has had the inevitable result of trivializing the related issue of sexism as secondary. The narrowness of such thinking has led to strange distortions, including the belief that evil can somehow be 'ranked' and that there can be a 'hierarchy' of oppression. My intentions changed during a search of religious publications and journals while completing a post-graduate assignment. It was abundantly apparent that the scale of the debate on women's place in religion was fast outstripping most other debates. However, it was not an area which had been treated locally with seriousness. It had unfolded into a comprehensive and highly contentious debate in North American and British campuses and religious institutions, and the proliferation of books and articles on the subject by not only theologians but also sociologists, anthropologists and linguists had greatly extended the platform and the level on which the debate was to be fought. It appeared that women working in many fields were laying claim to religion, and were engaging issues which had previously been left to the handful of articulate women working at least nominally within orthodox structures.
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Garn, Eric M. "Death, Power and Sexism in "Temblor" by Rosa Montero." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1352921304.
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Hammarqvist, Kristensen Johanna. "Linguistic sexism in a digitally native news outlet : A study on linguistic sexism at lexical and discourse levels in Buzzfeed News." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-71404.
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In 2018, most news articles are consumed online from a digitally native news outlet and it is therefore appropriate to examine the presence of linguistic sexism in the digitally native news site Buzzfeed News. The material is made up of 159 articles collected from Buzzfeed News. Selected features at the lexical and discourse levels are analysed using a quantitative method with qualitative elements. The selected features at the lexical level include generic pronouns and nouns, focused on the affix -man- and naming practices for females and males. At the discourse level, the selected features include how females and males are described in terms of their relationships, appearance and age-related words. Linguistic sexism is found to be expressed at both the lexical and discourse levels in the material. It is mainly expressed in naming practices, the use of relationship words and age-related words.<br>Dagens nyhetskonsument får, enligt studier, de flesta av sina nyheter från källor online och då främst från digitalt inhemska nyhetskällor, också känt som digitally native news outlets. Detta innebär att det därför är lämpligt att undersöka närvaron av språklig sexism i den digitally native news outlet Buzzfeed News. Materialet i studien består av 159 artiklar insamlade från Buzzfeed News. Utvalda språkliga markörer på ord- och diskursnivå är analyserade med hjälp av en kvantitativ metod med kvalitativa element. De utvalda markörerna på ordnivå inkluderar generiska pronomen och substantiv med fokus på affixet -man- och hur kvinnor och män namnges. De utvalda markörerna på diskursnivå som studeras inkluderarar hur kvinnor och män beskrivs vad gäller deras relationer till andra, utseende och åldersrelaterade ord. Språklig sexism finns uttryckt både på ord- och diskursnivå i materialet och det är huvudsakligen uttryckt i hur kvinnor och män namnges, användandet av relationsord och åldersrelaterade ord.
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Magness, Elizabeth Bryant. "Language in the church's worship." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Ng, Pak Hoi Jeffery. "Gender differences of conversational interaction in radio programmes." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2003. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/489.
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Lee, Lily N. "Is portraying God with female imagery a resymbolization of language of faith?" Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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McCrery, Sue. "Language and images of God the effects of feminist theology over three generations (1943-2000) /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Na, Pattalung Piengpen Newsom Ron. "An analysis of sexist language in ESL textbooks by Thai authors used in Thailand." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9057.
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Stout, Jane Gage. "When he doesn't mean you gender-exclusive language as a form of subtle ostracism /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/250/.
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Hammarqvist, Kristensen Johanna. "Språklig sexism i läromedel : En studie om språklig sexism i läromedel skapade för kurserna svenska B och svenska 2." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84498.
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2011 kom en ny läroplan för gymnasieskolan och med den nya kursplaner. I kursplanen för svenska 2 skrivs det explicit ut att både kvinnliga och manliga författarskap skall behandlas. Detta var en ny formulering jämfört med den tidigare kursplanen för svenska B som endast specificerar att författarskap skall behandlas. Denna studie undersöker ett läromedel ur var kurs för att avgöra om det finns exempel på språklig sexism i dessa på både en lexikal nivå och en diskursnivå samt hur många kvinnliga och manliga författare som blir omnämnda och behandlade. På den lexikala nivån undersöks hur kvinnor och män namnges, könsneutrala och könsspecifika substantiv, adjektiven kvinnlig och manlig och könsneutral användning av pronomen. På diskursnivå undersöks hur kvinnliga och manliga författare beskrivs utifrån deras utseende och relationer. Det görs både en kvantitativ och en kvalitativ analys av de ovannämnda språkliga företeelserna. Studien finner att det finns ett ojämnt språkbruk i materialet som pekar mot språklig sexism. Detta visar sig främst i hur kvinnliga och manliga författare namnges, beskrivs utifrån sina relationer samt att kvinnorna i materialet blir markerade i högre grad än männen.<br>In 2011 a new curriculum for Swedish upper secondary school was created. In the syllabus for Svenska 2 it is made explicit that both female and male authors should be addressed which was not the case for the syllabus for Svenska B. The syllabus for Svenska B only states that important authors should be addressed with no mention of the genders of the authors. This study examines a textbook created for each course in order to determine whether there are examples of linguistic sexism in these. This examination is performed at both a lexical level and a discourse level as well as an examination of how many female and male authors that are mentioned and discussed in the material. At the lexical level the naming practices of women and men are examined as well as generic and gender specific nouns, the adjectives kvinnlig and manlig and generic use of pronouns. At the level of discourse descriptions of female and male authors appearances and relations are examined. A quantitative and qualitative method of analysing the above-mentioned linguistic features is employed. The study concludes that females and males are written about differently which indicates examples of linguistic sexism. This is mainly expressed in the way females and males are named in the material, descriptions of their relations and the fact that women in the material are marked to a higher extent than men.
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Engelhardt, Maike. "Generic pronouns and their influence on the speakers' language awareness." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1844.
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Cripps, Rebecca. "The Persistence of Gender-Based Stereotypes in the Language of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-138280.
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Harry Potter-series are widely popular fantasy-novels that have influenced young readers all over the world on various issues, one being gender. Many arguments have been proposed to explain how the Harry Potter-series has a gender-biased attitude. Although previous research has covered a wide variety of claims, this essay will focus on examining the language and word choices made to describe the male and female characters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The word choices consist of both traditionally masculine adjectives and verbs as well as adjectives and verbs with negative connotations. To obtain a comprehensive view of the gender-biased tone of the two novels, the essay will not only examine the language, but also investigate if there is a gender-biased way of portraying the characters based on how their behaviour is described. These observations will be combined with previous research which includes Sara Mills’ investigation of sexist language and indirect sexism, Heilman and Donaldson’s critical perspective on the Harry Potter-novels, and Turner-Bowker’s study of stereotyping in young readers’ literature. These studies support my arguments and show that that there is a gender-bias in the way the characters are described, both through language and in the way that the character’s act in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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Tarazona, Navarro Miriam Yolanda. "Representaciones de la mujer en la publicidad sexista. Un análisis desde la competencia mediática." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/657566.
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El sexismo en la publicidad se encuentra perenne en nuestra sociedad al mostrar a la mujer con estereotipos de comportamiento y como un objeto sexual. Con intención de visibilizar la competencia mediática de las mujeres limeñas, de una brecha generacional, desde sus dimensiones del lenguaje e ideología y valores, se realizó el presente trabajo en donde se podrá observar si existe una mayor competencia mediática por parte de las mujeres jóvenes (Grupo 1) o si existe una competencia mediática desarrollada parcialmente en ambas muestras (Grupo 1 y Grupo 2). Para indagar las percepciones de las consumidoras, se realizaron catorce entrevistas a profundidad en donde se mostraron cuatro publicidades y se realizaron preguntas dirigidas para dar respuesta a la pregunta de investigación planteada.<br>Sexism in advertising is perennial in our society by portraying women with stereotypical behaviors and as a sexual object. With the intention of making visible the media competence of Lima women, of a generation gap, from its dimensions of language and ideology and values, the present article was carried out where it can be observed if there is greater media competition on the part of young women (Group 1) or if there is a partially developed media competence in both samples (Group 1 and Group 2). To investigate consumer perceptions, fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted in which four advertisements were shown and directed questions were asked to answer the research question posed.<br>Tesis
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Alklid, Jonathan. "Twitch, a Breath of Fresh Air? : An Analysis of Sexism on Twitch.tv." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-40326.
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The issue of sexism is arguably an important topic in modern society in several aspects of life. With the introduction of the Internet and communication over the Internet, additional potential sources of sexism have emerged. While there appears to have been a significant number of studies regarding sexism in cyberspace, Twitch.tv is a relatively new platform and seems yet to be properly explored. Therefore, while being limited in size, the present study aims to provide an introduction to Twitch.tv by performing a limited investigation of the extent of sexist behaviour and ideas expressed by users on the site, particularly against female streamers. To accomplish this, 30,000 lines of chat messages from six different chatrooms, three belonging to women and the remaining three to men, were examined for sexist behaviour, based on a variety of parameters such as differences in language complexity and instances of sexist remarks. The results suggested that several varieties of sexism existed on Twitch, and was directed at both men and women, where women seemed to be more heavily affected than men. The conclusion of the study is that Twitch does not seem to be a breath of fresh air in cyberspace as it appears to embody numerous sexist ideas. However, the author notes that Twitch could serve as a potentially useful source of data for future gender studies online.
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Na, Pattalung Piengpen. "An Analysis of Sexist Language in ESL Textbooks by Thai Authors Used in Thailand." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9057/.
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This study identified the types of sexist language that appear in ESL textbooks by Thai authors. The study analyzed the ESL textbooks by Thai authors sold at the Chulalongkorn University bookstore during spring 2007. It was a qualitative case analysis of fifteen ESL textbooks covering the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of ESL instruction. The study used feminist criticism to discover what gender roles are sanctioned as appropriate in ESL textbooks by Thai authors and if the language used supports or challenges patriarchy. The results of this study show that sexist language is present in the textbooks and that the textbooks contain content that promotes sexist assumptions concerning gender roles. As a whole, the language and examples used in ESL textbooks by Thai authors support patriarchy.
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Connal, Louise Marie Rodriguez. "Implications of the use of nonsexist language for the teaching of writing." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/499.
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Wessman, Sofia. "Firefighter or Fireman? Teachers’ attitudes towards gender neutrality in the foreign language classroom." Thesis, Jönköping University, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-11704.
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<p>This essay investigates the extent and significance of a gender decisive language in the foreign language classroom. Focus lies on teachers teaching English as a foreign language and their attitudes towards gender neutrality from a pure linguistic point of view.</p><p>My starting point was previous research done concerning my topic and the survey was performed through questionnaires that were sent out with both qualitative and quantitative questions to thirty teachers.</p><p> </p><p>My findings indicate that the teachers contradict themselves when answering the questionnaire. Their knowledge of gender neutrality is surprisingly low, but they think they know more than they actually do. It is essential to teach more about gender decisive language in schools and at the Teachers’ Education to promote equality. Conclusions can be drawn that this is an issue not dealt with enough and that teachers seem to have a distorted image about their approach concerning gender neutrality.</p>
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Hulvat, Jason Francis. "A gendered analysis of the historical Locke rethinking Locke's second treatise on government /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1057759937.
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Welling, Paula C. "Limited by Language: Words, Images, and Their Effect on Women." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400944034.
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Wounsch, Klas. "¿Ya están contentes? : Una investigación de las actitudes entre alumnos de escuela secundaria y universidad hacia el lenguaje inclusivo." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Spanska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-31655.
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In this thesis attitudes towards the so called inclusive language (lenguaje inclusivo) are investigated. The main idea of using the inclusive language is to avoid sexism and promote the visibility of the woman. However, there is an ongoing debate concerning the use of the inclusive language and there are few signs of reaching a consensus. For that reason, it is relevant to investigate the attitudes towards the use of the inclusive language. The informants are students of secondary schools and universities in some Spanish speaking countries. The aim is to investigate whether the attitudes are positive or negative and the hypothesis, founded on earlier studies, is that the female informants would show a more positive attitude than the male ones. Generally speaking the hypothesis is not confirmed. The results show more complex relationships that have to be investigated in the future.
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Jones, Jordan Benjamin. "Fantastic Sexism? Subverting the Femme Fatale and Femme Fragile in the Fantastic Fiction of Machado de Assis." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5523.
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, arguably the most famous Brazilian author, has been studied perhaps more than any other figure in Brazilian literature. Because Machado's novels are so exceptional, many of his good short stories have been neglected by scholars, particularly those categorized by some as “fantastic.” This study attempts to fill that gap by analyzing the most prominent female characters in Machado's fantastic fiction. After providing a brief overview of the term fantastic and explaining how the stories used qualify as fantastic, this study identifies several tropes into which their female characters fit. Chapter 1: The Femme Fragile analyzes the tropes of woman as foil for rational man and woman as manipulable possession, while Chapter 2: The Femme Fatale examines the tropes of woman as siren and woman as fantastic other. Although these tropes seem to expose Machado's misogyny, in reality they function as his dramatization of the erroneous chauvinist thinking of nineteenth-century Brazil. Machado employs these tropes only to subvert them and the patriarchal thinking on which they are based, allowing his readers to come to more productive ways of seeing gender relations in Brazil.
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Kollberg, Josefine. "Gender Equality in the EFL Classroom : A Qualitative Study of Swedish EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Gender Equality in Language and its Implementation in the Classroom." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-130714.
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The Swedish Curriculum for the upper secondary school states that teachers should “ensure that teaching in terms of content and its organisation is typified by a gender perspective” (Skolverket 2011, p. 9). Considering that there is no further information regarding what a “gender perspective” means in reality, this sentence could be interpreted in many different ways. This study aims to explore how EFL teachers deal with linguistic gender equality, and which strategies they use to maintain a gender inclusive language in their classroom. Six interviews were conducted with EFL teachers at upper secondary schools in Stockholm, Sweden. The results indicated that the teachers thought this was an important issue to consider in teaching, andthat they had well-reasoned strategies for maintaining a gender perspective. The most prominently discussed strategies were encouraging reflection and discussion on these matters, and choosing appropriate literature that either would show a variety of different perspectives, or else would question the social norm. However, concerning their own language production, some of the teachers lacked explicit strategies for maintaining a gender inclusive language, which could derive from a lack in knowledge. Thus, this essay proposes that gender inequality in language needs to be more explicitly explored, both in teacher education and in further education for employed teachers. The teachers displayed an ambition to maintain a gender equal language teaching; and would benefit from more explicit tools to realize that.
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Macur, Franziska. "Weibliche Diskurskulturen : privat, beruflich, medial /." Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, 2009. http://d-nb.info/993743080/04.
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Au, Mei-yan Florence, and 歐美恩. "Gender in textbook dialogues: textual analyses and classroom practices." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30399804.
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Bailey, Lucille Marie. "Sex-marked language differences : a linguistic analysis of lexicon and syntax in the female and male dialogue in the eight original plays of Lillian Hellman." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/776720.
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A randomly-selected sample of 31,115 words taken from the eight original plays of Lillian Hellman was analyzed on the basis of female and male dialogue. Lexical classes--verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns--were examined by studying terms described by other researchers, especially Mary P. Hiatt, as belonging to generally "feminine" or "masculine" categories. In these classes, differences were statistically significant based on gender in two areas.Adjective figures that took into account type 1) of adjective, 2) of referent, and 3) of speaker showed statistical significance. This was true only for the "feminine" adjectives, especially as used by female speakers for female referents. Pronouns were distributed through the plays and used by the genders of speakers at significant levels of difference. A connection was evidenced between each gender of speaker and the gender of pronouns used, a strong relationship that also showed significance by play.Areas of syntax studied were emphasis, communication unit length, and clause structure. Markings of emphasis were significant by gender, female characters having both more instances and more marked words. Length evidenced no difference, likely because of requirements of the dramatic setting. The study of clause structure showed that female characters were given more whole sentences and more coordination at significant levels.Each area studied was analyzed for statistical significance. Hiatt's results were also statisticaly calculated and reported. Significance was based on chi-square calculations, at a level of p < .05 for rejecting null hypotheses. In addition to an axis based on gender, figures were also computed for specific plays.Applying the categories to individual plays and characters showed Hellman"s use of these strategies to define personality. For instance, with adjectives and emphasis, types more often given to female characters were also given in comparatively large number to themen in the Hubbard plays (The Little Foxes, and Another Part of the Forest), thereby marking them as unusual and adding to their characterization.<br>Department of English
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Gottburgsen, Anja. "Stereotype Muster des sprachlichen "doing gender" : eine empirische Untersuchung /." Wiesbaden : Westdt. Verl, 2000. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/320005712.pdf.
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Waterman, Tracy. "Sex and Gender in the Library of Congress Subject Headings, 1988-2003." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/66.
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The problem of linguistic and structural bias in the subject vocabularies used by libraries has been the subject of varying degrees of scrutiny in the cataloging literature of the past several decades. This study examines the Library of Congress subject headings involving sex and gender from 1988, 1993, and 2003. Changes to the headings are tracked and analyzed. Comparisons are made between recommendations made in the literature and changes to the subject vocabulary; the impact of the changes on the appearance of bias on the basis of sex and gender in library catalogs is discussed.
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Silva, Sergio Luiz Baptista da. "Masculinidades e feminilidades dentro dos manuais do FLE (Francês língua estrangeira): das visões sexistas às relações de gênero." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8146/tde-25112009-110827/.
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Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo verificar como as masculinidades e feminilidades são mostradas, cronologicamente, nos manuais do FLE (Francês Língua Estrangeira), analisando sobretudo as visões sexistas da diferença dos sexos e as relações de gênero. Segundo Scott (1999), a visão sexista dominou durante séculos as análises que se propunham refletir sobre a problemática das diferenças sexuais. Na verdade, tratava-se de uma visão estática do que representava ser homem ou ser mulher nas sociedades ocidentais. Somente a partir da revolução sexual proposta pelo Movimento feminista anglo-americano dos anos 1960 que se começou a pensar em gênero como resultado sócio-cultural das diferenças dos corpos masculino e feminino, percebendo que a identidade de gênero é construída para além do corpo biológico e, além do mais, passível de variações no tempo e no espaço. Para a realização desta pesquisa, selecionamos alguns manuais representativos na história do FLE, mais especificamente seis manuais produzidos a partir de 1960, ano da publicação do manual VIF, que coincide com o início movimento feminista. Para tanto, foi feita uma análise descritiva das imagens e textos pertinentes à pesquisa. Nossa hipótese de partida era a de que encontraríamos dentro desses manuais muito mais visões sexistas do que variações das identidades de gênero. Acreditamos que esta pesquisa é promissora no domínio do Ensino de Línguas Estrangeiras, em especial do FLE, pois pode oferecer aos professores de LE outros elementos de análise e de crítica sobre o livro didático e, conseqüentemente, sobre suas práticas pedagógicas.<br>The object of this research was to check how male and female chracteristics are chronologically presented in the FFL (French as a Foreign Language) manuals, through the analysis of sexist views of the difference between genders and their relations. According to Scott (1999), for centuries the sexist point of view was predominant in the analyses of sexual differences. In fact, it was a stactic view of the representation of what was believed to be a man or a woman in the Western civilization. Just after the sexual revolution resulting from the American Liberation Movement of the 1960s did one start to reflect on gender as a result of social and cultural-based concepts between male and female bodies, and to notice that gender identity is built beyond the biological body, thus subjected to time and space variations. For the sake of this research , we selected some manuals which are benchmarks in the history of FFL, more specifically six manuals produced as of 1960, year of the publication of the VIF, which coincides with the start of the Liberation Movement. We proceeded to make a descriptive analysis of the images and texts which fit the research. We hypothesized finding many more sexist views in these manuals than variations of gender identities. We believe that this research is very promising in the Foreign Language Studies domain, specially in FFL, for it may offer FL teachers other elements of analysis and criticism of the textbook and, consequently, of its pedagogic practices.
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Östling, Mattias. "Gender and Language : A matched-guise study exploring linguistic stereotyping using voice morphing." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-122483.
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The matched-guise test, which was originally developed by Lambert et al. (1960), has been useful in determining covert attitudes towards accents, dialects, or languages. In this paper, the author presents a fresh take on matched-guise tests in sociolinguistics utilizing modern technology to digitally manipulate a female voice into a male voice. This makes it possible to create recordings in which the tone, intonation, stress, and personality traits are the same, yet the apparent guise is different, thus allowing us to ascertain attitudes towards the sexes as well. Using this method on 169 respondents of mixed sex, the author has shown that there are statistical differences between how the male and female guises are interpreted. When all collaborative and competitive aspects are combined, the female guise is considered more collaborative, while the male is considered more competitive. Contradictory to old stereotypes it would also seem as though men are considered less knowledgeable than women. Less sexist people also rate the male and the female guise more unevenly than more sexist people do. A less sexist person favours the female guise on collaborative variables, while a more sexist person favours neither guise.
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Riddell, Jeannette Linda. "Equalizing the composition classroom: A look at who and what we overlook and strategies for change." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/786.
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Ericsson, Anna. "Occupational terms in The Daily Aztec & The San Diego Union Tribune : Non sexist vs. sexist language." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2038.
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<p>Abstract</p><p>In English usages such as mankind and job titles ending in -man (fireman, chairman) when referring to people in general are considered sexist. Sexist language makes a distinction between women and men and it can exclude, trivialize or diminish women. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to study the sexist or non-sexist use of occupational terms in The San Diego Union Tribune and The Daily Aztec. The questions that were investigated were how the newspapers used affixed terms ending in –man and -woman, if they added female/woman/lady to refer to women, but also how they referred to traditional female professions (nurse, midwife). The study was conducted by hand by using a textual analysis, which was both qualitative and quantitative in nature. The study showed that the newspapers primarily use non-sexist occupational terms and avoid using female markings, even when reference is being made to women who have traditional male professions. The sexist usage that was most common was the affixed terms ending in –man and –woman. One conclusion that could be drawn was that The San Diego Union Tribune follows The Associated Press Stylebook’s policy about the usage of coined words such as chairperson and spokesperson.</p>
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Steiner, Maureen Parrella. "Non-sexist Language Curriculum Guidebook." UNF Digital Commons, 1990. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/252.
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Included is a skills development curriculum unit for secondary English students which encourages the use of non-sexist language with creativity within the content area. The study contains lists of objectives, writing, reading and group activities, an attitude survey for students and an evaluation checklist for teachers. Classroom discussions, films, fairy tales and skills development exercises are used to help students recognize and find alternatives to sexist language. The rationale for the teaching of non-sexist language is based on the theory that how we speak stems from how we think, and visa-versa. If sexism in reading and writing is identified and avoided, stereotypical attitudes would be less likely to occur. The study's intent is to challenge teachers and students to employ non-sexist language so that its usage becomes more familiar and acceptable in every day life.
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Blank, Malin. "“rostro angelical y un cuerpo de modelo” : Estereotipos de género en los adjetivos." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187600.
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The aim of this investigation was to study what adjectives the media uses when describing female and male football players and sportswomen and sportsmen. The objective was to see if the adjectives described men and women differently and whether the adjectives reinforced gender stereotypes. To see the frequency an adjective had an online corpus was used and the analysis was based on Fairclough´s model of critical discourse analysis. The results showed that many adjectives were used for both genders. However, adjectives regarding appearance only showed in the results for women. In conclusion, the men and women were described in similar ways, however, as the women were also described by their beauty indicates that the media reinforces the gender stereotypes in certain ways.
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Shinko, Kathryn A. "Vignettes." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429884060.
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Poland, Bailey. "The Impact of Sexist Rhetoric on Women's Participation in News Comments Sections." University of Findlay / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1494247181482129.
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Lledó, Cunill Eulàlia. "De les dones als diccionaris: anàlisi de la presència femenina en tres diccionaris." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672833.
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Es pot afirmar que dos dels aspectes fonamentals que configuren la visió i la percepció que la societat té de les dones i, en conseqüència, la valoració que se’n fa, són el sexisme i l’androcentrisme. En primer lloc, a causa de la importància que tenen aquests dos conceptes al llarg de la tesi i, en segon lloc, perquè formen part de la mateixa delimitació del tema, passo a definir-los.
El sexisme és fonamentalment una actitud que es caracteritza pel menyspreu i la desvaloració, per excés o per defecte, del que són o fan les dones. És una actitud derivada de la supremacia masculina, es basa en l’hegemonia dels homes i en el conjunt de creences que li donen suport i la legitimen. També es pot definir com el conjunt dels mètodes utilitzats pel patriarcat per continuar mantenint el sexe femení en una situació de subordinació.
L’androcentrisme, en contrast amb el sexisme, consisteix en un punt de vista orientat pel conjunt de valors dominants en el patriarcat o, dit d’una altra manera, per una percepció “centrada” i basada en normes masculines. És prendre l’home com a mesura de totes les coses; tot discurs que presenta aspectes de la vida de les dones com una desviació (a la norma) és androcèntric.
L’androcentrisme també té, com el sexisme, indubtables repercussions en els usos de la llengua. L’androcentrisme, en una mesura més gran que el sexisme, és la causa i l’origen d’uns determinats usos de la llengua que tendeixen a excloure o a invisibilitzar les dones en la llengua; o el que és el mateix, promouen l’exclusió lingüística o la invisibilització lingüística. Dos són els usos més importants de la llengua, a bastament presents en les definicions i exemples dels diccionaris, en què l’androcentrisme es comprova.
Els biaixos sexistes i androcèntrics ocasionen, com s’ha dit, d’una banda, un tractament pejoratiu de les dones i, de l’altra, una invisibilització o una exclusió (i, per tant, una desvaloració) de les dones en qualsevol document a partir d’uns determinats usos de la llengua; aquests fets han ocasionat un gran nombre d’estudis arreu del món, especialment, en el món occidental. Sembla pertinent, doncs, preguntar-se fins a quin punt les dones estan correctament representades en els diccionaris, si hi ha hagut canvis en aquesta visualització en els últims anys, especialment des de mitjans d’aquest segle, i, si n’hi ha hagut, quin tipus de canvis es constata en els diccionaris.
Aquesta tesi es proposa de contestar alguns dels anteriors interrogants. Per això la tesi s’organitza en dues parts diferenciades tot i que lligades entre si.
La primera part (segon capítol) és una anàlisi de la presència i de l’absència de les dones en el Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana (a partir d’ara, m’hi referiré com a DGLC) a través d’algunes informacions lexicogràfiques dels articles: definicions, exemples, fraseologia, etc. S’han estudiat gran part dels elements que fan referència a éssers humans sexuats. La presència d’homes i dones al llarg del DGLC és desigual i descompensada; he escollit i he agafat com a centre d’interès primordial i com a objectiu principal d’estudi, l’anàlisi de la presència del sexe femení al llarg de tot el document.
La segona part de la tesi (tercer capítol) és una anàlisi comparativa de la presència humana sexuada (fonamentalment de la femenina) entre el Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana, prèviament comptabilitzat i analitzat, i dues mostres aleatòries de dos diccionaris editats posteriorment: el Diccionari de la llengua catalana (pel que fa al català) i el Diccionario de la Lengua Española (respecte al castellà). Aquesta anàlisi contrastiva és la base de generalitzacions sobre la distribució de la presència humana sexuada en la lexicografia en general.
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Martinger, Henric. "Terms of endearment in American Soap Operas : A corpus study of honey, sweetheart and darling." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-24299.
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This thesis investigates three terms of endearment in soap operas, namely honey, sweetheart and darling. The purpose is to determine how these terms are used and in what context. 200 tokens were taken from the Corpus of American Soap Operas which contains 10 different soaps. The results indicate that more women utilize terms of endearment overall in soap operas, both to men and to other females. However, women are also mostly addressed with these terms. Honey is used mostly woman-to-woman, sweetheart most man-to-woman and darling is used mostly by women addressing men. Furthermore, honey occurs most frequently and almost all terms are used in a positive way, but there were some few exceptions however. In general, a term of endearment is mostly utilized at the end of a sentence, and individuals who are addressed with honey, sweetheart or darling do not usually respond with a similar term in return. An analysis of the social relationships between the characters/speakers of terms of endearment was also conducted, and it indicated that romantic couples and mother-to-son were common constellations where these terms often occurred. Furthermore, no instances were found where men used terms of endearment to other men. Moreover, the portrayal of men and women in soaps are not that stereotypical that one may suspect, but there are still stereotypical characteristics to find. This paper also suggests that terms of endearment are more common in soap operas than in authentic speech. The conclusion is that the findings in this thesis are important but further and more comprehensive studies have to be conducted in order to establish that the results presented here are reliable and accurate.
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Railsback, Diane Estelle. "Reading for equality: An examination of gender-bias in children's literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/680.
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Coady, Ann. "The non-sexist language debate in French and English." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2018. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/24058/.
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The field of gender and language has gradually abandoned studies of gender-fair language, perhaps considering that there is little left to say on the subject. However, the debate over gender-fair language rages on in the media. Language bodies spend a significant amount of time and money on producing guidelines, yet there have been woefully few studies on what speakers think of these reforms, and the few studies that have been carried out have tended to focus on small groups. In addition, there have been very few analyses of how sexism gets debated and defined within media texts themselves, whereas examining social evaluations of language is essential in understanding the motivating force of language change. There is also a dearth of comparative studies in gender and language, which would allow conceptions of language in general, as well as feminist linguistic reforms, to be framed in their cultural and historical perspectives. This thesis aims at filling this gap in the field of gender and language by examining discourses on feminist linguistic reform in the media from a cross-linguistic perspective. A corpus of 242 articles (approx. 167,000 words) spanning 15 years (2001-2016), whose main topic is (non-)sexist or gender-fair language was collected from British and French on-line national newspapers. Apart from the obvious fact that the media have an enormous influence on public opinion, this is where the debate on sexist language has traditionally been carried out, and thus the media play a special role in the debate. On-line newspaper texts were therefore chosen in an effort to find discourses that readers are exposed to on a regular basis, and that could be classed as widespread and familiar to the general public. A corpus-based analysis was employed as a starting point to identify traces of discourses that are used to frame arguments in the gender-fair language debate. Frequency lists, keyword lists, and word sketches were carried out in order to indicate possible directions for analysis. Hypotheses based on the literature review were also followed up with searches for particular semantically related terms relating to discourses found in other studies. Finally, a CDA analysis was carried out on relevant concordance lines. Twelve main discourses were identified in the two corpora, based on six principle ideologies of language. Findings indicated that the overwhelming majority of these discourses and language ideologies are found in both the English and the French corpus, and across the political spectrum of newspaper groups. However, differences in quantitative and qualitative use may indicate on the one hand, deeper cultural differences between the UK and France, and on the other, core political and moral values between the right and left wing. The main contribution to knowledge that this thesis makes is in helping to revitalise research on sexist language through an analysis of the discourses and language ideologies that determine the success, or failure, of non-sexist language, as well as a novel analysis of the origin of sexism in language (Chapter 3).
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Zheng, Lingzhen. "Contemporary American Political Speeches : A Study of Sexist Language." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Enheten för lärarutbildning, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-5913.
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Weatherall, Ann. "Dis-covering gender differentiation and discrimination in the English language." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320205.
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Fye, Carmen Michelle. "Composition and technology: Examining liminal spaces online." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1950.
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This thesis examines how composition studies have been, and continue to be, shaped by the cultural values of exclusion; this field is "continually magnif[ied] and reproduc[ed] in the complex social conditions connected with those values in fundamental ways much like educational systems in general."
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Dorner, William. "FEMINIST, LINGUISTIC, AND RHETORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE REFORM." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3100.
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As people become aware that society treats women unfairly, they also perceive related shortcomings in the way that Modern English references women. For example, many have objected to the so-called generic he, the third-person masculine pronoun employed to refer to a person of unknown gender, and provided several alternatives, few of which have been widely adopted. Nonetheless, change is evident in the case of they becoming an increasingly common solution to refer to a person of unidentified gender. The intentional reform of the Modern English language, both in the past and present, has been a result of people s reactions to what is often perceived as a bias or a deficiency with what is possible to say given the words at their disposal. The rhetorical significance of reform is profound, and scholars continually broach the subject from the perspective of different disciplines. Explored here are the approaches of three of those fields, feminism, linguistics, and rhetoric; how each reacts to and even influences reform is an important part of the study. What is evident is that, regardless of the particular field, reform remains a force of change, even while it may not be broadly recognized. Further, traditional grammatical rules provide an insufficient means for tackling inequalities in Modern English, and are in part responsible for such imbalance. As such, writers must be aware of the present expectations of their audience and the situation of particular words.<br>M.A.<br>Department of English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English MA
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Bernal-García, María Elena. "Images and labels: The case of the Tlatilcan female figurines." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291532.
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In reconstructing the meaning of prehistoric artifacts, the art historian's task is particularly difficult. Scholars dealing with this period of time have to build their arguments on scarce archeological data, often unaided by written documents. Due to this lack of information, prehistoric female figurines are the subject of innacurate iconographic interpretations. In the case of the Mesoamerican Preclassic, the missing data is supplemented by subjective perceptions about people who do not belong to the scholar's own sex or ethnic background. The resulting misinterpretations fill the interstices between the information available and the historical facts. The traditional view that considers these figurines nothing more than beautiful women stop any further inquiries into the subject. Sometimes, the scholar's own fantasies substitute for logical arguments. Scholars writing on Mesoamerican iconography must be careful not to follow many of their predecessors to avoid confusing their colleagues, students and the general public.
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Lundberg, Valeria. "Actitudes de un grupo de adolescentes mexicanos hacia el lenguaje inclusivo : Alternativas al masculino genérico." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Spanska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-34224.
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Language and culture are deeply intertwined. Language reflects and influences the attitudes, perceptions and behaviors of its users. Therefore, the use of non-sexist language can contribute to achieving gender equality in society. This study focuses on the perceptions of a group of Mexican teenagers towards inclusive language. In particular, their acceptance degree towards various gender morphemes are studied and compared to the generic use of the masculine gender. The results of the survey show a clear preference for the alternatives that are easy to pronounce, so called, normative gender morphemes, including the generic use of the masculine compared to new, non-normative gender morphemes that are inclusive but difficult to pronounce. Women prefer the splitting strategy (“desdoblamiento”) to a larger degree than men do. Men have a more conservative posture and prefer the generic use of the masculine and reject non-normative gender morphemes. The differences among informants of different socioeconomic levels are smaller. Still, it seems that informants of a higher socioeconomic level have a more conservative attitude towards inclusive language than informants of a lower socioeconomic level.