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Still a gender-biased language?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2008

Jenny Cheshire
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Abstract

Starts with excerpt from Jenny Cheshire, A question of masculine bias? (ET1, 1985). The author says; My 1985 article ended on an upbeat note, confidently predicting that as more people take care to remove masculine bias from their own English, so the language will gradually stop distorting our perceptions of women. The twenty-two years that have passed represent pretty much a generation of speakers, making this a good time to consider whether or not my confidence was misplaced. How successful have language reforms been?

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English Today , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 7 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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