Gender and Language

Question 1

Importance of language

Answer 1

• expression of thoughts, articulation of feelings
• reflects & communicates culture
• affects socialization
• reflects how we behave sexually, how we see/treat other genders
• reflects sexual scripts + how ppl express sexuality

Question 2

hypothesis that reality forms concepts and language is formed, and this becomes as cycle

Answer 2

Saphir-Whorf hypothesis

Question 3

sexual behavior relies on this; plans that give direction to behavior; Gagnon: blueprint that gives directions but not specifying everything that must be done

Answer 3

Sexual scripts

Question 4

component that shapes our sexual scripts through norms and values

Answer 4

cultural component

Question 5

component that enables people to give meaning to their psychological responses

Answer 5

intrapersonal component

Question 6

component that provides normative scripts to describe sexual relations

Answer 6

interpersonal component

Question 7

What organizes our sexual expressions?

Answer 7

sexual scripts

Question 8

meaning of diskarte for Filipinos

Answer 8

for sexual motives

Question 9

implication of linguistic sexism

Answer 9

langauge communicates culture

Question 10

how language discriminates or devalues members of one sex

Answer 10

sexism in language

Question 11

kind of sexist language that uses generic masculine

Answer 11

excludes women or renders them invisible

Question 12

kind of sexist language that uses feminine suffixes to make unnecessary references to sex

Answer 12

trivializes women or diminishes their stature

Question 13

kind of sexist language that uses terms like salesgirl, little women, old maid

Answer 13

disparage and marginalize women

Question 14

kind of sexist language that shows lack of parallelism (eg. man and wife, mr & mrs. ___, president & mrs.); terms that call attention to person’s sex in designating positions, occupations, roles

Answer 14

fosters unequal gender relations

Question 15

kind of sexist language that uses derogatory terms for women with no equivalent for men

Answer 15

gender polarization of meanings in using adjectives

Question 16

kind of sexist language that shows lack of words that describe women’s experience in English

Answer 16

lexical gap

Question 17

kind of sexist language where this statement falls under: “men can care for children just as well as women”

Answer 17

hidden assumptions

Question 18

kind of sexist language that uses phallocentric metaphors

Answer 18

metaphors reflect male-centered view

Question 19

Kintanar’s suggestions for sex stereotyping

Answer 19

• identify both sexes the same way for occupations
• do not type cast certain jobs/roles
• treat men and women in a parallel manner
• avoid language that trivializes women
• avoid language that calls attention to sex/sex role

Question 20

Kintanar’s suggestions for sexist language in quoted materials

Answer 20

• paraphrasing
• quote directly and add ‘sic’ after sexist part
• partially quote and rephrase