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1. Explain the meaning of a generic term.

  • Words that have different meanings for the different genders
  • A term used in preference to gender specific ones, or coined where one does not already exist.
  • Vague words, thought to be favored by women in Otto Jesperson's research
  • Words that can be used for any age group
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2. Give an example of a generic term that has been replaced by the male form

  • Teacher
  • Plumber
  • Manager
  • CEO

3. What are marked nouns?

  • These are nouns that take different forms, based on the subjects gender.
  • They are words that have an adjective attached to them
  • They are nouns that have been changed to be less sexist
  • They are nouns which signal position

4. 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

5. Why might gender be ingrained in our language?

  • Children find it easier to learn language this way.
  • The people who use the language are gendered.
  • English came from Anglo-Saxon which had a case system and three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter).
  • It adds more complexity to our grammatical structures, which the human brain strove to create.
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