scholarly journals Research on Sexist Language in EFL Literature: Towards a Non-Sexist Approach

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Pérez-Sabater
Keyword(s):  
Sexist Language

Linguistic markers of sexism in the Italian media: a case study of ministra and ministro

Corpora ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Formato
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Language Reform ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Job Titles ◽  
Sexist Language ◽  
Gender Specific

This paper examines the way that the Italian media use language to refer to female ministers in the last three governments. While Italian is a gender-specific language (e.g., a root of the job titles can be followed by either feminine or masculine morphemes, singular and plural), it is common to use masculine forms to refer to and address women. Ministro is one of those cases where masculine forms replace feminine ones – a practice which could be construed as sexist, is only rarely challenged in institutions, and to which attention has only recently been paid in academia ( Fusco, 2012 ; and Robustelli, 2012a , 2012b ). The investigation presented here focusses on how grammar is translated in a way that reproduces women's invisibility in a sexist society. A corpus-based quantitative analysis of feminine and masculine forms of ministr– used in three widely read printed Italian newspapers (Corriere della Sera, Il Resto del Carlino and La Stampa) is undertaken. Newspaper articles were collected in the period 2012–14 to cover the Monti technocratic government (three female ministers), and left-winged Letta (seven female ministers) and part of the Renzi (seven female ministers) political governments. This paper contributes to the literature on language reform and sexist language in traditionally male-inhabited physical and metaphysical (stereotypes, prototypes) spaces such as the institutional public sphere.

scholarly journals A Multimodal Discursive Analysis of the Communicative Elements of Sexism in Facebook Picture Uploads

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-75
Author(s):  
’Yemi Mahmud ◽  
Destiny Idegbekwe
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Sampled Data ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Sexist Language ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Media Platform

A good number of studies in the past have examined the language of sexism from the feminist perspectives, gender segregation and degradation, among others, using semiotics resources, discourse analysis, multimodal discourse, among other theories. This study looks at the linguistic and non-linguistic language features of sexist language as choices available to language users on the Facebook social media platform. Using the multimodal theory as the framework, the study examines 10 randomly selected Facebook posts with texted pictures and comments posted by Nigerians with elements of sexism. The study also engaged the descriptive research design to examine the ‘textedpictures’ used as sampled data. These sampled data were given in-depth analysis to reveal their usually hidden and laughed-about sexist messages. The analysis of data was considered by determining the existence of sexist communication on Facebook platform, examining the meaning making elements in sexist languages posts. This is precipitated on the discovery that less attention is paid on the signification of the communicative elements deployed to convey sexism on the Facebook platform. From the analysis, the study finds out that Facebook users engage linguistic and non-linguistic elements symbolising sexist language on Facebook postings; that the posts on Facebook rely predominantly on both written texts and pictures, combined to make the tagging or stereotyping concrete; that the sexist posts on Facebook platforms rely heavily on hasty or intentional generalisation in order to demean the sex they chose to target through texts, pictures and the combination of texts and pictures.

scholarly journals SEKSISME BAHASA ARAB DAN TANTANGAN PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA ARAB

Lugawiyyat ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inayatur Rosyidah
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Grammar System ◽  
Sexist Language ◽  
Equitable Education ◽  
Education Process

Arabic sexism can be seen from the Arabic grammar system it self supporting the formation of sexist language. Arabic sexism in education, especially religious education in the form of subject matter and the education process increasingly dwarf women from the inequality of the patriarchal system. To build a world of equitable education without gender inequality originating from language sexism is to create gender-friendly language, restructure the curriculum, and require a paradigmatic, egalitarian, flexible, and persuasive learning step from all parties, especially teachers as the spearhead of the learning process.

scholarly journals La desigualdad de género en televisión: la mujer en los nuevos formatos de telerrealidad / The Gender Inequality in Television: Women in the new Formats of Telereality

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Luis Miguel López Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Television Program ◽  
Sexist Language

ABSTRACTThe research analyzes the image of women in a specific television program as an example of inequality in all areas, not just communicational, but educational, economical, social and structural. The study of a television format shows the communicational discrimination under the presence of an androcentric and sexist language that categorizes a typology of women with the objective consequences of gender inequality between the sexes.RESUMENLa investigación se ha ocupado de comprobar la imagen que tiene la mujer en un determinado programa de televisión como ejemplo de la desigualdad en todos los ámbitos, no solo comunicacionales, sino educacionales, económicos, sociales y estructurales. El estudio de un formato de televisión nos da a conocer la discriminación comunicacional bajo la presencia de un lenguaje androcentrista y sexista que categoriza una tipología de mujer con las consecuencias objetivas de desigualdad de género entre ambos sexos.

scholarly journals Assessing recognition of sexist language: Development and use of the Gender-Specific Language Scale

Sex Roles ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 31 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 741-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. McMinn ◽  
Paul E. Williams ◽  
Lisa C. McMinn
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Sexist Language ◽  
Gender Specific

Epicene pronouns in intermediate to advanced EFL writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Stormbom
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Sexist Language ◽  
L1 Influence ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Second Wave

Abstract Since the second wave of feminism, non-sexist language use has become an increasingly important topic. A key issue in English is the choice of epicene pronouns, i.e. pronouns that refer to both sexes. Despite the global nature of English, little research has addressed this topic in EFL contexts. This study examines the use of the epicene pronouns he, he or she, and they in two L1 and L2 corpora of student writing. The corpus analyses show that, overall, the L2 English speakers use he significantly more than the L1 speakers, whereas the L1 speakers use they more. Variation found in the L2 subcorpora seems to be partly related to L1 influence: The writers who use he the most are speakers of gendered L1s with a traditional practice of masculine generics. The study also shows that both L1 and L2 writers are affected by the antecedent type in their pronoun choice.

scholarly journals THE SEXISM IN JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wira Buana Manalu And Sri Minda Murni
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Sexist Language

This study deals with The Sexism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. This study was aimed as analyzing the types of sexist language that was consisted in the story of the novel Pride and Prejudice and to show the discrimination of sex in the novel Pride and Prejudice. This research used qualitative research. The data was taken from the sentences in the novel Pride and Prejudice. The research deals with the theory which was conducted by Janet Holmes (2001), where she said there were three types of sexist language. There were three types of sexist language found in the novel Pride and Prejudice, they were English Metaphors (10,60 %), Marked and Unmarked (89,02 %), and Generalization (0,38 %). It was find that the Marked and Unmarked (89,02 %) dominantly used in the novel Pride and Prejudice to shows that there are discrimination, especially found in women side as the discriminated sex in the novel Pride and Prejudice. 

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