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6. Explain the meaning of a generic term.

  • Words that can be used for any age group
  • Vague words, thought to be favored by women in Otto Jesperson's research
  • A term used in preference to gender specific ones, or coined where one does not already exist.
  • Words that have different meanings for the different genders

7. What is meant by "Male-As-Norm"?

  • Men are more likely to work than women
  • Men are not oppressed in society
  • In many cases the norm, or standard is male, and the female term is still the subordinate one.
  • Men are expected to do more than women.

8. How is politically correctness trying to change marked words?

  • They want to remove the sexist marked words and replace them with generic terms.
  • They are to remove all gender reference in all forms of language
  • They want to increase the power of women through language
  • They want occupational to be more accessible to gender