جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "زبان جنسیت گرا" در نشریات گروه "ادبیات و زبان ها"

In sexism, the juxtaposition of words forms can elevate one gender above another and unsettle equality between genders. In the present work, sexism is examined in a corpus-based manner through qualitative and quantitative analysis of collocations of the words woman and man in Hamshahri Corpus version 2. In the present research which has been done on the basis of Baker’s (2006, 2010a, 2017) corpus-based approach, the collocations of the words man and woman have been identified using Antconc software functions of collocates and concordance and the data have been classified semantically. The results show the existence of sexism in the collocations of written Persian language; while both of the words man and woman co-occur with collocations having neutral-meaning, qualitative analysis of collocations categories reveals that women, in comparison to men are in lower position. Also, sexism against women is observed in categories like family, job, personal characteristics, art and crime.

Sexism in language is a well-known discourse in linguistics. In sexist language, the choice of particular linguistic variations leads to gender bias in favor of one gender and against the other. Sexism has been widely researched through the corpus-based methods in international studies but it has not been investigated by analytical corpus processes in Iranian contexts. This study discusses sexism in Persian language word formation in Hamshahri Corpus version 2 based on Baker’s (2006, 2010, 2017) corpus-based approach. To this end, the words formed by the morphemes man and woman were selected as the representative words in each gender category and the frequency and concordance were explored using Antconc. The data were then examined by first assigning semantic values to the corpus and then running statistical tests. The results showed the existence of sexism in the word formation of the Contemporary Written Persian Language; it seems that the morpheme man is used more frequently than woman in forming words in Persian Language. Moreover, the findings showed that positive characters are represented by the morpheme man and negative characters are represented by the morpheme woman. This study can reveal parts of Iranian’s viewpoints of sexism in order to stop such a social problem.

In the present article, we have studied the current Persian language from a sociolinguistic point of view, as a sexist language. The hypothesis of this study is that, although the current Persian language, like other sexist languages such as English, German, French, etc. is not a sexist language at the syntactic level. However, its use in lexicon, morphology, and sometimes with regard to semantics and metaphor, shows it can be a sexist language. Therefore, in order to prove this hypothesis, various linguistic data have been gathered through recording Persian speaker's conversations, reading newspapers, magazines and etc. After a regular categorization, we have analyzed the data; and finally the linguistic as well as social variables causing sexism in the current Persian language have been explored through an ordered questionnaire.