Linguistic Sexism and Feminist Linguistic Activism

The Handbook of Language and Gender

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 550-570

  Pauwels, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Feminist linguistic activism; Language planning; Language regulation; Linguistic sexism; Linguistic stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908311599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756942.ch24     Document Type: Chapter

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