Sexism in English - my dissertation.

[Ken Brewer]

Dear Kate,


thank you very, very much for responding.

i'd be delighted to receive a copy of the chapter
which you referred to, if it's not too much
trouble,although i'm not realy sure if it fits in
exactly with what i'm doing myself, because mine is
really in english. in any case, i'd still like to see
it, because i do have a bit of french - it sounds more
in line with what one of my class-mates is doing her
thesis on.

thanks again. i really appreciate your taking an
interest.

take care,

ken



--- "Beeching, Kate" <Kate.Beeching at UWE.AC.UK> wrote:
> 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:
>
> > 2 Eileen Villas,
> >                                        Magazine
> Road,
> >                                        Cork City,
> >                                        IRELAND
> >
> >
> > 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
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Beeching, Kate
> Email: Kate.Beeching at uwe.ac.uk
> "University of the West of England"
>
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