A Historical Perspective on Gendered Language in Writing Studies Journals.
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| Title: | A Historical Perspective on Gendered Language in Writing Studies Journals. |
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| Authors: | Riggins, Coleman1 colemanriggins326@gmail.com, Sladek, Amanda2 sladekam@unk.edu |
| Source: | Across the Disciplines. 2024, Vol. 21 Issue 2/3, p190-212. 23p. 1 Color Photograph, 3 Charts, 12 Graphs. |
| Subject Terms: | *Nouns, *Journal writing, Gender-neutral language, Linguistic analysis, Corpora |
| Abstract: | This article examines how writing studies scholarship has responded to changes in society’s understanding of gender. Combining grounded theory and corpus linguistic analysis using a self-compiled corpus of journal issues published between 1970-2020, the authors track changes in the usage of gendered versus gender-neutral nouns and pronouns with generic referents. While the analysis of pronouns was inconclusive, patterns of noun usage in writing studies journals over time reveal an overall preference for gender-neutral language and a reduction in masculine-coded nouns across several journals in the 1970s and 1990s. Analyzing the changing language of this scholarship using a combination of methodologies from writing studies and linguistics reveals how the discipline thinks about gender in a concrete, practice-informed way [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | This article examines how writing studies scholarship has responded to changes in society’s understanding of gender. Combining grounded theory and corpus linguistic analysis using a self-compiled corpus of journal issues published between 1970-2020, the authors track changes in the usage of gendered versus gender-neutral nouns and pronouns with generic referents. While the analysis of pronouns was inconclusive, patterns of noun usage in writing studies journals over time reveal an overall preference for gender-neutral language and a reduction in masculine-coded nouns across several journals in the 1970s and 1990s. Analyzing the changing language of this scholarship using a combination of methodologies from writing studies and linguistics reveals how the discipline thinks about gender in a concrete, practice-informed way [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 15548244 |
| DOI: | 10.37514/ATD-J.2024.21.2-3.08 |
