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SUMMARY:The Order of Gendered Words in a Phrase: When and Why It Constitut
 es Gender-Biased Language - Dr Selin Kesebir\, London Business School
DTSTART:20151027T130000Z
DTEND:20151027T140000Z
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CONTACT:Johanna M Lukate
DESCRIPTION:I will present my work on the order of gendered words in conjo
 ined phrases (e.g.\, “men and women”) as a form of gender-bias in lang
 uage. I will argue that communicators put the more relevant party in the i
 nitial position\, and audiences assign stronger relevance to the party in 
 that position. Studies 1-3 document the prevalence of male-first conjoined
  phrases in the public (but not family) domain and link the pattern to his
 torical changes in women’s public presence over the 20th century. Studie
 s 4 and 5 show that people spontaneously produce stereotype-consistent wor
 d order patterns when relevance differences are not known or presumed. Stu
 dies 6 and 7 find that word order affects the perceived relevance of the t
 wo genders in a given context. Overall\, this work provides a theoretical 
 account and empirical evidence for word order in conjoined phrases as a fo
 rm of gender-biased language.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology\, Downing
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