Language and Gender: Representation

"lady doctor" is an example of...

• pejoration

• overt marking

• the semantic rule

• binary opposition

The process whereby words acquire negative connotations over time is known as...

• lexical asymmetry

• negative semantic space

• affixation

• pejoration

Using a male term to represent all human beings is known as...

• generic he

• male firstness

• lexical symmetry

• overt marking

Name the theorist/s: linguistic determinism vs linguistic reflectionism

• Sapir-Whorf

• Janet Holmes

• Dale Spender

• Jeremy Tunstall

Name the theorist/s: Wrote 'Man-Made Language'. We should 'unlearn' patterns of language by using alternative choices

• Stacy Smith

• Dale Spender

• Norman Fairclough

• Linda Harrison

Name the theorist/s: "euphemism treadmill" - offensive terms are replaced then the replacements pick up negative connotations as well

• Steven Pinker

• Margaret Doyle

• Murial Schultz

• Jacques Derrida

Name the theorist/s: Wrote 'The Media In Britain'. Found that men outnumber women on screen by 2 to 1.

• Sara Mills

• Janet Holmes

• Julia Stanley

• Jeremy Tunstall

Name the theorist/s: categories of verb processes and ideational metafunction.

• Jacques Derrida

• Michael Halliday

• Steven Pinker

• Theo Van Leeuwen

Name the theorist/s: Looks at how 'social actors' are activated or passivated

• Margaret Doyle

• Linda Harrison

• Sara Mills

• Theo Van Leeuwen

A semantic imbalance between two words that are meant to be equivalents (eg wizard/witch) is known as...

• synecdoche

• lexical asymmetry

• pejoration

• metonymy