Sexistizing and Desexistizing Through Language.

Swacker, Marjorie

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ERIC Number: EJ142611

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Publication Date: 1976

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Sexistizing and Desexistizing Through Language

Swacker, Marjorie

Humanist Educator, 14, 4, 171-178, Jun 76

The current move toward sexual equality in society has caused sociolinguists to question assumptions that male language is the norm for all language, with women's language a variation of it. Desexitization of the language has become important in the field of linguistics. nAuthor/HLM)

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Behavior Patterns, Feminism, Individual Differences, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Language Variation, Lexicology, Sociolinguistics, Speech Habits, State of the Art Reviews, Vocabulary

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