1. Lengua y género en documentos académicos.
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Tapia-Arizmendi, Margarita and Romani, Patrizia
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SEXISM in language , *GENDER differences in language , *GRAMMATICAL gender , *LANGUAGE & human sexuality , *SPANISH language , *PREJUDICES , *ACADEMIC discourse ,USAGE - Abstract
The aim of this article is to reflect on linguistic sexism, a kind of discrimination that has women as an object and language as an instrument. Sexist language either ignores women, or treats them as men, or represents them as an exception; such a use of language, which excludes or minimizes some social subjects, linguistically represents their self-denial and contributes to the permanence of common prejudices. The article analyzes two aspects of linguistic sexism: some asymmetries between masculine gender and feminine gender in the Spanish language; as well as some discriminatory linguistic expressions found in academic documents in the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico that hide or diminish the professional or student image of woman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012