Language Purism and Gender

Social Cognition of Gender and Language

The question, Do men and women use language differently played a central part in the emergence of feminist socio linguistics more than two decades ago, and it casts a long shadow. This paper focuses on the literature that has contributed to the understanding of the major research questions underlying two major strands, language and gender, concentrating on the development of the literature from...

On ethics and specific anti-Hansen purism.

One of the most curious objections to the medical usage of the modern and scientific-sounding term "Hansen's disease" is that "Dr. Hansen did not have the disease". But the fact that neither Dr. Parkinson nor Dr. Bright were victims of "their" diseases is conveniently ignored. As it is ignored that Dr. Recklinghausen never had skin tumors and that no malignant mammary "Paget's disease" ever dev...

The Impact of Purism on the Development of the Slovene Standard Language

the effects of integrative vs. instrumental motivation, learning strategy use and gender on iranian efl learners’ language proficiency

this study was carried out to investigate the effects of integrative vs. instrumental motivation, learning strategy use and gender on iranian efl learners. to this end, 120 efl learners both male and female majoring in english language and literature at shiraz university participated in the study. in order to conduct this study three instruments were used: oxford quick placement test, motivatio...

Editorial: Language, Cognition, and Gender

Gender inequality remains a contentious issue in many societies, despite legislative, and other less formal attempts to tackle it. It is perpetuated, in part, by gender stereotyping. Previous research indicates that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Genderrelated information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical categor...