Hey Guys , Once Upon a Time was Sexist Language…

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Tarif, J.

• This article adopts a contrastive approach and focuses on sexist practices in language – in French and in English – affecting women. It investigates the extent to which these practices are embedded in both languages, along with the recommendations the communities speaking those languages make to encourage the use of a more inclusive language. It also centers on the use of non-sexist language by James Finn Garner in his politically correct bedtime stories and their translations, as a practical case study revealing the challenge that reformulating sexist language into non-sexist language poses, not only on an intralingual level, but also on an interlingual level.

• Date created

  2015

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Sexism in language
  • Non-sexist language
  • English language--sex differences
  • French language--sex differences

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3NK0M

• License

  Attribution 3.0 International