He is the sun, she is the moon: a feminist sociolinguistic approach to teaching the French language

A feminist sociolinguistic approach was utilized in the teaching of a course in French language and culture to discover possible gender biases in grammar, structure and connotations of the language. Observations revealed the derivation of morphology of adjectives from a masculine base, the presence...

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Published inWomen and language Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 53 - 58
Main Author Moscovici, Claudia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Urbana George Mason University 22.09.1997
Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender
Subjects
Analysis
Civil rights
College students
Cultural identity
Cultural Instruction
Cultural Sensitivity
Education
Feminism
French as a Second Language Instruction
French language
Gender
Language
Language and culture
Language Teaching Methods
Literature
Romance Languages
Second Language Learning
Sex discrimination
Sexes
Sexism
Sociolinguistics
Study and teaching
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Women
Womens rights movements
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Summary:A feminist sociolinguistic approach was utilized in the teaching of a course in French language and culture to discover possible gender biases in grammar, structure and connotations of the language. Observations revealed the derivation of morphology of adjectives from a masculine base, the presence of semantical dissymmetries between masculine and feminine connotations and the inclusion of the feminine in masculine grammatical constructions. This approach enabled students to identify aspects of sexism contained in the French language.
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ISSN:8755-4550