Essays about: "Klara Östman"

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  1. 1. Neutral or not? : A study of gender (in)equality in the use of professional terms in English.

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Klara Östman; [2017]
    Keywords : language and gender; sociolinguistics; professional titles; corpus linguistics; collocate;

    Abstract : Jenny Cheshire, current editor in chief of Language in Society, stated that there is a bias of masculine terms and referents in the English language (1985, p. 22). This poses a problem, both linguistically and socially, and conscious language reforms need to be imposed in order for the bias to drastically be countered (1985, p. 22). READ MORE