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- Title
A Latent Semantic Analysis of Gender Stereotype-Consistency and Narrowness in American English.
- Authors
Lenton, Alison; Sedikides, Constantine; Bruder, Martin
- Abstract
Using latent semantic analysis, we examined gender stereotypes in American English by submitting over 100 masculine, neutral, and feminine role-words and trait-words to pair-wise semantic similarity comparisons with masculine ( man, he, him) and feminine ( woman, she, her) referents separately. We expected to find: (a) Stereotyping—roles and traits would be more semantically similar to the ostensible ‘matching’ than ‘mismatching’ gender category referent; (b) Categorical narrowness—both categories would be less semantically similar to counterstereotypical than to neutral or stereotypical characteristics; but this would be especially so for the male category , indicating its relatively greater narrowness. Results supported these hypotheses, but only among role-words. American English reflects and reinforces gender stereotypes regarding gender roles at a level beyond that recognized previously.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GENDER stereotypes; LATENT semantic analysis; ENGLISH grammatical gender; AMERICAN English language; MODERN languages; GENDER role in communication; SEMANTICS
- Publication
Sex Roles, 2009, Vol 60, Issue 3-4, p269
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11199-008-9534-z