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Publication details [#35065]

Fasold, Ralph, Haru Yamada, David Robinson and Steven Barish. 1990. The language-planning effect of newspaper editorial policy: Gender differences in The Washington Post. Language in Society 19 (4) : 521–539.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

editorial | gender | language planning | language policy | newspaper report

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines the language-planning effect of THE WASHINGTON POST's editorial policy against sexist usage in newswriting practice. It also discusses the value of the employed statistical methods for interpreting the presented quantitative data.