In language teaching, a study of the corpora gives teachers access to authentic texts and the language of these texts is the language used in real-life communication. Social structures and culture-defined representations of gender influence sexist language or choice of words based on gender...
Currently a campaign named“Let Books Be Books ”has been launched to break down gender division in children's publishing. The following are opinions from both sides. Read theexcerptscarefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should : 1. summarize briefly the opinions f...
I can't find any examples of separate gendered words for the second person "you". However, a similar phenomenon exists in Basque, where the verb changes to agree with the gender of the person being referred to as "you". An example is the phrase "you have it", which translates to "...
Consider the following alternative words in a job advertisement. The job responsibilities are to (a) provide general support to project teams in a manner complementary to the company, and to help clients with relevant activities; or (b) to direct project groups to manage project progress and ens...
Sometimes I try to interpret which binary gender people are reading me as when they aren't using gender words and I just can't. I'm happier being oblivious though - I mean, either one would be wrong, so if I can just pretend they're not gendering me I'm a happier person :) Pete...
In other words, although survey data are very useful in documenting correlations, it is difficult to use them to show a causal effect between the linguistic features and grammatical structures of languages, and between the attitudes and behaviors of the people who speak them. As languages are ...
It may surprise some to learn that the Hebrew Bible says nothing about wives or women being submissive, and yet women were seldom in positions of authority at that time. God’s words inGenesis 3:16b were realised and society was largely patriarchal after the fall. Perhaps male rule and male...
Gender, in this case, may appear to be interchangeable with sex for many of us. However, scholars agree that gender is a socio-culturally and ideologically constructed concept (Butler 1990; Philips 2001; West and Zimmerman 1987). In other words, unlike sex, which often refers merely to the...
Non binary people have existed for a millennia, but there's no point using these terms if no one gets it." Unlike other gender neutral words that have been touted in the past, such as 'xe', 'zhi' and 'xhi', 'they' is a word that already exists. In some ways this makes it ...
“xe” does *sound* good, as it kind of mixes the she/he words together. “ye” looks good, but might make everyone sound… well… Oliver Lawrence November 7, 2015 at 7:27 am There have been several attempts at introducing new gender-neutral singular pronouns in the past, but none ha...