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One of last week’s media talking points was a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP), which attracted attention mainly because of its claim that women use exclamation marks three times as much as men. (With...
Over the years I have regularly been driven to distraction by the habit, especially among adults talking to young children, of referring to virtually all non-human animals as “he”. It’s the “default male” principle in action: if the sex of a living being is unknown o...
This month we learned that the linguist Robin Lakoff had died at the age of 82. If you’ve heard of Lakoff you will probably know her as the author of Language and Woman’s Place (LWP), an early and very influential contribution to the field of language and gender studies. It first appeared as href="https://web.stanford.edu/class/linguist156/Lakoff_1973.pdf" target=...
