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From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson: exploring the move from sexist usages to gender neutrality
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Holmes, J., Sigley, Robert J. and Terraschke, Agnes (2009) From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson: exploring the move from sexist usages to gender neutrality. In: Peters, Pam and Collins, Peter and Smith, Adam, (eds.) Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and Beyond. Varieties of English Around The World (No.G39). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 181-202. ISBN 9789027248992
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Abstract
This paper analyzes data from written and spoken corpora of British, American, Australian and New Zealand English to track social change in patterns of gender-marking. Frequency data for the use of general terms like woman and man are compared across the different regional varieties of written English, and contrasted with spoken corpus data from Australia and New Zealand. Several alternative social interpretations of the data are considered and discussed. The distributional patterns for occupational terms in the corpora are examined with regard to gender pre-modification and post-modification. The results indicate that female roles are often still explicitly linguistically marked, but this could be interpreted as an indication of women’s entry into formerly male-centric domains. The most recent Australian data suggest a move towards gender neutrality.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Series Name: | Varieties of English Around The World | ||||
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company | ||||
Place of Publication: | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ||||
ISBN: | 9789027248992 | ||||
Book Title: | Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and Beyond | ||||
Editor: | Peters, Pam and Collins, Peter and Smith, Adam | ||||
Official Date: | 29 July 2009 | ||||
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Number: | No.G39 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 406 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 181-202 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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