Language and Gender - Terms
- Created by: georgiasadler
- Created on: 06-05-14 09:22
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- TERMS
- Marked terms
- Words that reveal a person's gender
- policeman
- wife
- Some words can be marked by a feminising suffix
- actress
- usherette
- comedienne
- The suffix implies the male version is the original or the 'norm' which seems superior
- Words that reveal a person's gender
- Unmarked terms
- Don't reveal a person's gender
- police officer
- spouse
- Don't reveal a person's gender
- Generic terms
- When a marked term is used to refer to both men and women
- Nearly always masculine terms which are used to refer to peoplein general
- Mankind
- Can make males seem superior and females 'invisible' by ignoring them
- Wome are said to be occupying negative semantic space
- Marked terms
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