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Sexist language: it's every man for him or herself | Mind your language | Media. As long ago as 1911, the American writer Ambrose Bierce, in his satirical The Devil's Dictionary, objected to Miss – "a title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market" – and proposed that for consistency there should be a title for the unmarried man: "I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviate to Mh. " We may have to wait a while longer for "Mh", but Ms, which I recall being greeted with ridicule when it started to catch on in the 1960s and 70s, is now well established. The assumption that women's marital status, but not men's, should be included in the formal way they are identified is rightly becoming a thing of the past. Some men just do not have the grace to admit they are beaten.

The fact that the deputy leader of one of our main political parties is female and has the word "man" in her name is an endless source of amusement to the kind of person who thinks it witty to call her "Harriet Harperson". (Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Lakoff Language and Woman's Place. Men from Mars Women from Venus.pdf. Web.stanford.edu/class/linguist156/Lakoff_1973.pdf. Gender Styles in Computer Meditated Communication. A Theory of "Powerless Language" An excerpt from "Men and Women in Conversation: An Analysis of Gender Styles in Language" by SUSAN GITHENS Lafayette College May 1991 O'Barr and Atkins: In an article entitled "'Women's Language' or 'Powerless Language'?

" William O'Barr and Bowman Atkins described the results of their 1980 courtroom study. They studied "language variation in a specific institutional context -- the American trial courtroom -- and sex-related differences" were the topic of this particular article (McConnell-Ginet, Borker, Furman, p. 93). O'Barr and Atkins concluded from their study that the quoted speech patterns were "neither characteristic of all women nor limited only to women" (McConnell-Ginet, et al., p. 102).

Return to Thoughts on Gender Styles in Communciation. You Just Don't Understand. Www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/herring.txt. +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | ***** Copyright 1994 by Susan Herring ***** | | This document may be freely reproduced and circulated for | | non-commercial purposes *as long as a statement | | containing the full title, author's name, and this | | copyright statement is included* | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ GENDER DIFFERENCES IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION: BRINGING FAMILIAR BAGGAGE TO THE NEW FRONTIER Susan Herring Program in Linguistics University of Texas Arlington, TX 76019 susan@utafll.uta.edu (Keynote talk at panel entitled "Making the Net*Work*: Is there a Z39.50 in gender communication?

", American Library Association annual convention, Miami, June 27, 1994.) 1. Language and gender. Introduction This guide is written for students who are following GCE Advanced level (AS and A2) syllabuses in English Language. This resource may also be of general interest to language students on university degree courses, trainee teachers and anyone with a general interest in language science. On this page I use red type for emphasis. Brown type is used where italics would appear in print (in this screen font, italic looks like this, and is unkind on most readers). Headings have their own hierarchical logic, too: Back to top Language and gender - what is it all about? When you start to study language and gender, you may find it hard to discover what this subject, as a distinct area in the study of language, is about.

To get you started, here is an outline of part of one exam board's Advanced level module on Language and Social Contexts - there are three subjects, one of which is Language and Gender. How language reveals, embodies and sustains attitudes to gender. Is it easy or hard? Male_and_female_spoken_language_differences-_stereotypes_and_evidence.pdf. NewmanSexDif2007.pdf.