Creation date in repository: 2023-07-25

Abstract: This project is about a topic that has been the focus of a good deal of attention recently in society: gender-neutral language. Different societies are following different paths to gender neutral language. Dictionaries can be regarded as reflecting the societies in which they were made. The study compares the treatment of 15 words with potential gender stereotypes in dictionaries from the United States and the United Kingdom. It demonstrates that two dictionaries, one from each country, treat words with potential gender stereotypes differently. It is argued that that this difference may be a result of the differencing paths towards gender neutral language both countries have followed.

Subject: Filologia

Language: en

Subject areas: Filología Philology Filologia

Department: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys

Student: Mestres Garcia, Laia

Academic year: 2021-2022

Title in different languages: El trato de palabras con posibles estereotipos e implicaciones de género en dicionarios de EEUU y Reino Unido The treatment of words with potential gender stereotypes and implications in US and UK dictionaries El tracte de paraules amb possibles estereotips i implicacions de gènere a diccionaris d'EEUU i del Regne Unit

Work's public defense date: 2022-06-13

Access rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Keywords: diccionarios, género, estereotipos dictionaries, gender, stereotypes diccionaris, gènere, estereotips

Confidenciality: No

TFG credits: 9

Title in original language: The treatment of words with potential gender stereotypes and implications in US and UK dictionaries

Project director: Paul Rees, Geraint

Education area(s): Anglès

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)