Neutral or not? : A study of gender (in)equality in the use of professional terms in English.
Jenny Cheshire, current editor in chief of Language in Society, stated that there is a bias of masculine terms and referents in the English language (1985, p. 22). This poses a problem, both linguistically and socially, and conscious language reforms need to be imposed in order for the bias to drast...
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Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska
2017
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27348 |