Abstract / Excerpt:

Objectives: This study determines how frequent our local journalists use exist language and identifies some common sexist language used by the local journalist.
Methodology: Content analysis was conducted in this study.
Conclusions: The study discovered that there were words commonly used as gender biased. The most commonly used sexist language as taken from the variables are as follows: Ignoring or dismissing women, by using male terms as prefix and suffix; Categorizing men and women according to their occupation and role; and using male terms generally, such as men/man, his/he/him.

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Source Institution	Ateneo de Davao University
Unit	Humanities
Authors	Pasco, Karen S.
Page Count	33
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	March 1, 1999
Tags	Language, Languagegs, Sexist language, content analysis

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