gendered language 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageLanguage and genderA2/A-levelAQA Created by: lou400Created on: 29-11-22 14:46 523617 Across 1. words that are marked for women become pejorated (14) 2. 220 words to describe a promiscuous female, 20 to describe a male - who said this (12) 7. marked terms and suffixes are trivialising to women (13) Down 2. animal metaphors for women are pervasive (11) 3. Many of the female terms are marked as indicative of sexual promiscuity (9) 5. wrote "man-made language" highlighting areas of sexism such as the word "man" to mean all humans. (11) 6. there are more negative words for women because we live in a patriarhal society (11)
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