Linguistic Bias
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, inclusive language, political correctness; call it what you will the fact of the matter is, due to recent rapid social changes the use of man as a generic term has lead to misrepresentation and exclusion of women. In as much as man increases his intellectual ability, he still struggles in anci ....
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.... burning at Berkeley during the 1960's did not facilitate the acceptance of woman over night, it was merely the beginning. Gender neutral language demands a reconditioning of society to see words such as "chairman, alderman etc..." not as a malicious attack upon woman, but as non-sexist, non-biased terms. "English language is alive and constantly changing"(Gelder). One only has to read out loud sentences from the 19th century to sense the shifts that have occurred in the last 150 years. ....
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