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Publication details [#6757]

Mey, Jacob L. 1978. Sexism and loans. In Linnarud, Moira and Jan Svartvik, eds. Kommunikativ Kompetens och Facksprak. ASLA. pp. 241–252.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexical borrowing | sexism

Annotation

M. claims that there exists a man's world as opposed to a woman's world, that language reflects and maintains this division; and he treats loans as a special case of this reflection and its maintenance.