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

McMinn, Mark R.; Williams, Paul; McMinn, Lisa Graham

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“…Participants were asked to help "pilot test a task for future research" by completing the Gender Specific Language Scale (McMinn, Williams, & McMinn, 1994;Swim, Mallett, & Stangor, 2004). Men worked as quickly as possible to correctly identify three types of errors present in 30 sentences.…”

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The unexpectedly positive consequences of confronting sexism

Mallett

Wagner

2011

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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The unexpectedly positive consequences of confronting sexism

Mallett

Wagner

2011

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

102

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“…They were seen as 'obsessing needlessly over trivial language issues whilst more important political issues were being neglected' (Sunderland 2006). Some linguistic feminist researchers aimed at recognizing and detecting sexist language (Swim, Mallet &Stangor 2004) while others went on a mission of designing instruments to detect sexism in languages (McMinn, Williams & McMinn 1994). The efforts of those 'language campaigners' brought about the stigmatization of some of such terms and lexical items.…”

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"Who is the culprit: The structure or the culture?" Indirect sexism: Linguistic representation of women in Egyptian print media

Nayef¹,

El-Nashar²

2015

IJLC

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This paper aims at investigating the more subtle ways of linguistic sexism in Egyptian print media. The paper examines three types of indirect sexism: collocations, transitivity, and presupposition and visibility, in Al-Ahram newspaper Headline and Front Page report coverage of June 30 th , 2013events. The paper has shown that it is not just the androcentric nature of the Arabic language that posed structural limitations that led to the linguistic invisibility of women as shown in a previous study (Nayef, 2014a). Such obscuration of women here is also induced by the masculine supremacy beliefs in the patriarchal culture. The paper investigated how the reporters used certain lexical items in collocation with female participants in the political activities during that period. These collocations were either negative in meaning or used in a negative context, creating a negative image of women in both cases. The study has pointed out that even in events where women were key 'Actors', they were represented as 'Goals' rather than 'Actors'. It was also shown that the male reporters reproduced the culturally accepted division of public and private spheres, the presupposed role of women and men and the stereotypical characteristics assigned to members of the two genders.

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“…Considering that language reform is still controversial and some people strongly oppose inclusive language, different instruments have been designed with the aim of measuring attitudes toward sexist/non-sexist language (the Language Questionnaire by Rubin and Green, 1991; the Gender-Specific Language Scale by McMinn et al, 1994; the Inventory of Attitudes toward Sexist/Nonsexist Language by Parks and Roberton, 2000). The most systematic and complete is probably the 42-item Inventory of Attitudes toward Sexist/Nonsexist Language (IASNL) (Parks and Roberton, 2000), which tackles three aspects: (1) belief and opinion about sexist/nonsexist language; (2) respondents' ability to recognize sexist language and (3) the use of or willingness to use inclusive language.…”

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Visible or influential? Language reforms and gender (in)equality

Mucchi‐Faina

2005

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English There is much controversy regarding the use and the effects of politically correct (PC) language and language reforms. This article is focussed on gender-related PC language, that is, non-sexist language. After a short account of the debate on the issue, it is shown that, with regard to gender, language reforms can be based on two main strategies: inclusion and visibility. The preference for one or the other strategy depends not only on the characteristics of the specific language but also on the aim considered as a priority in the context. After an overview of language changes introduced in different (mainly European) countries, studies on the effects of sexist language and language reforms are reviewed. Finally the practical implications of the scientific findings on the issue are discussed. French L'emploi et les effets du langage politiquement correct (PC), ainsi que les réformes de la langue, sont actuellement très controversés. Cet article se concentre sur le langage PC à l'égard du genre, à savoir le langage non-sexiste. Après un bref résumé du débat, l'auteure montre que, par rapport au genre, les réformes de la langue peuvent être fondées sur deux stratégies principales: l'inclusion et la visibilité. La préférence pour l'une ou l'autre de ces stratégies ne dépend pas seulement des particularités de la langue en question, mais aussi du but qui est considéré prioritaire dans un contexte donné. Après un compte rendu des changements de la langue introduits dans différents pays (surtout en Europe), une revue des études sur les effets du langage sexiste et des réformes de la langue est présentée. Enfin, les implications pratiques des résultats scientifiques sur le thème sont discutées.

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

Cited by 10 publications

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The unexpectedly positive consequences of confronting sexism

The unexpectedly positive consequences of confronting sexism

"Who is the culprit: The structure or the culture?" Indirect sexism: Linguistic representation of women in Egyptian print media

Visible or influential? Language reforms and gender (in)equality

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