Essays about: "sexism in language"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the words sexism in language.
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1. Gender-neutrality in Written Discourse : A newspaper-based diachronic comparisonstudy of gender-neutral vocabulary
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This paper investigated the use of sexist language in English vocabulary by examininggender asymmetry and sexism in contemporary written discourse. The traditional sexistlanguage often reinforces gender stereotypes and inequalities. In English, the masculineterms are considered the unmarked form (the norm) while the feminine terms are marked. READ MORE
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2. Sorry to Burst Your Bubble : An analysis on how content by @thegirlslikeme organize resistance against anti-feminist narratives through humor and wellness fuelling participation in Nigerian feminist discourse on Instagram
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och mediaAbstract : In this study, I look at the content and interpretation of posts by a feminist meme account on Instagram called @thegirlslikeme, from the perspective of a sample size of Nigerian female followers through a focus group discussion, along with a visual social semiotic analysis of the posts. This study set out to answer three research questions: i) How do the posts on TGLM use humor and wellness to portray feminism? ii) How is the content on TGLM challenging antifeminist narratives in a Nigerian context? And finally, iii) How do the Nigerian followers relate to the brand of feminism represented on TGLM? The theoretical approaches theories employed to help think through the data gathered in form of thematic blocks from the interview, and the textual and visual content are participatory culture, work of representation, and filter bubbles and echo chambers. READ MORE
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3. Keeping tabs on GPT-SWE : Classifying toxic output from generative language models for Swedish text generation
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Disclaimer: This paper contains content that can be perceived as offensive or upsetting. Considerable progress has been made in Artificial intelligence (AI) and Natural language processing (NLP) in the last years. READ MORE
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4. Language, Gender, and Sexuality in EFL Textbooks : The Case of Greek Public Secondary Schools
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The past few decades have been marked by increasing awareness of issues pertaining to gender and sexuality, since both concepts have started being treated as continuums or spectrums, rather than as binaries. Therefore, the fields of gender and queer linguistics have been growing in significance, in an effort to identify underlying ideologies and biases in language, and to challenge them. READ MORE
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5. Linguistic sexism in a digitally native news outlet : A study on linguistic sexism at lexical and discourse levels in Buzzfeed News
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : In 2018, most news articles are consumed online from a digitally native news outlet and it is therefore appropriate to examine the presence of linguistic sexism in the digitally native news site Buzzfeed News. The material is made up of 159 articles collected from Buzzfeed News. READ MORE
