Sexism in English - my dissertation.

[Beeching, Kate]

This looks interesting! I work on Language and Gender in 
French (currently already a Senior Lecturer at UWE, 
Bristol, but still writing up my PhD on "The function of 
parenthetical remarks and pragmatic particles in the speech 
of men and women in contemporary French") I am also editing 
a book entitled Femmes et français and there is at least 
one chapter there which might be of interest to you - it 
deals with the adoption of feminised forms - enseignante, 
professeure etc in French in Quebec and reactions to the 
standard masculine or unmarked form enseignant. (Does it 
include women or not?) Do you read French??? If so, I'll 
send on a copy. I expect you've been inundated by replies 
about English!
Best wishes,
kate Beeching
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:54:36 -0500 Ken Brewer 
<soyken at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

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> 
> Hello there!
> 
> I'm Ken Brewer from Ireland. I'm an MA student at University College, Cork,
> doing Applied Linguistics. And I would very much welcome any words of
> advice etc by way of picking the brains of all you good and kind linguist
> folk.
> 
> I am about to embark on the task of compiling a 15,000-word thesis on
> sexism in the English language. I want to test foreign speakers'
> sensitivity to sexism in English to native speakers' sensitivity to the
> same. And what I'd really like to know is, does anybody out there know of
> any similar research which has been done in this area???
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ken Brewer
> 
> soyken at yahoo.com

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Beeching, Kate
Email: Kate.Beeching at uwe.ac.uk
"University of the West of England"