The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials

Mollin, Sandra

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“…Instead, corpus analyses found that word order was strongly predicted by the words' semantic meaning (Benor & Levy, 2006;Mollin, 2014). Words signaling high power tended to be listed before less powerful referents (for a review, see Hegarty, 2015).…”

Section: Androcentric Behaviormentioning

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Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism

Bailey

LaFrance

Dovidio

2018

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

128

108

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Androcentrism refers to the propensity to center society around men and men’s needs, priorities, and values and to relegate women to the periphery. Androcentrism also positions men as the gender-neutral standard while marking women as gender-specific. Examples of androcentrism include the use of male terms (e.g., he), images, and research participants to represent everyone. Androcentrism has been shown to have serious consequences. For example, women’s health has been adversely affected by over-generalized medical research based solely on male participants. Nonetheless, relatively little is known about androcentrism’s proximate psychological causes. In the present review, we propose a social cognitive perspective arguing that both social power and categorization processes are integral to understanding androcentrism. We present and evaluate three possible pathways to androcentrism deriving from (a) men being more frequently instantiated than women, (b) masculinity being more “ideal” than femininity, and/or (c) masculinity being more common than femininity.

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Section: Androcentric Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism

Bailey

LaFrance

Dovidio

2018

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

128

108

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“…Intensifier canny was also judged as more frequent in predicative than attributive position, reflecting the distribution of intensifiers in real speech as reported in previous research. Therefore, just as the questionnaire participants gave judgements matching the age-related trends in DECTE, they were able to discern the linguistic distribution of intensifiers, demonstrating the correspondence between corpus data and speaker intuitions in this regard (Hoffmann 2006;Bresnan and Ford 2010;Mollin 2014). Judgements are therefore a valuable tool for accessing speaker intuitions about the functions of dialect forms, allowing researchers a window into the processes of grammaticalisation that incoming intensifiers undergo which cannot always be observed using vernacular speech corpora alone, particularly with low-frequency items that would be difficult to analyse reliably using multivariate techniques.…”

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“…The argument behind this is that high-frequency linguistic items and collocations have stronger and more accessible mental representations than low-frequency ones (Bybee 2007: 10). Studies comparing the frequency of syntactic phenomena and their linguistic constraints in corpus data with results from speaker intuitions have demonstrated remarkable correspondence between the two (Hoffmann 2006;Bresnan and Ford 2010;Mollin 2014). As such intuitions are "in all likelihood based on frequency information stored in the mental lexicon" (Mollin 2014: 212), the third hypothesis is that adjectives that are more frequent in speech overall will be perceived to occur with intensifier canny more than less frequent adjectives.…”

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Canny good, orquite canny?

Childs

2016

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This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.) Claire Childs (Newcastle University) AbstractThe word canny has long been associated with the dialects of the North East of England, most typically in its adjectival sense. However, it has four distinct functions (adjective, adverb, intensifier and modifier in quantifying expressions), which this paper tracks in a diachronic speech corpus. Although the intensifier (e.g. it's canny good) is documented in the Survey of English Dialects (Upton et al. 1994), it appears in the corpus later than expected with the profile of an incoming form. Results from a judgement task corroborate the corpus trends and show that people's intuitions about intensifier canny correlate with age as well as the semantics and position of the following adjective, in such a way that shows the intensifier is not fully delexicalised. The research highlights the value of combining production and perception data in establishing how the origins of a linguistic item affect its distribution in its new function.Keywords: language change; Tyneside; intensification; grammaticalisation; perception; judgement data; function; frequency 1 I gratefully acknowledge support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and would like to thank Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Heike Pichler, Jennifer Smith, Jennifer Thorburn and Cathleen Waters for their feedback at various stages, the DECTE team for granting me use of the corpus, and Adam Mearns for additional assistance with the materials. Thank you to the audiences at Sociolinguistics Symposium 20 (Jyväskylä) and the LVC research groups at Newcastle University and the University of Toronto where aspects of this research were presented. I am also very grateful to the editor Marianne Hundt and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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“…There has been a lot of research and debate about the sequence of the elements and the factors that govern or influence this sequence [e.g. Malkiel (1959: 142-154); Mollin (2014)]. Several factors play a role; these can overlap and reinforce each other, but they can also contradict each other.…”

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Heaven and Earth, Good and Bad, Answered and Said: A Survey of English Binomials and Multinomials (Part Ii)

Sauer¹,

Schwan²

2017

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Binomials in general and English binomials in particular are a frequent, complex and important linguistic as well as stylistic phenomenon. 1 Compared to other linguistic phenomena, however, they are a relatively under-researched field. Therefore our aim is to provide a concise survey of English binomials, sketching their structure, function, history and the current state of scholarship, and pointing out possibilities for further research. 2 The first part of this article was published in the previous issue of the journal. In Part II we move on to the etymological (9.) and the semantic structure of English binomials (10.). Very broadly speaking, we thus move from aspects that concern mainly the surface to features that lie a little deeper down. The etymological structure has to do with the use and distribution of native words and of loan-words; the semantic structure comprises synonyms, antonyms, and complementary pairs, as well as factual, stylistic, and cultural binomials. We also deal briefly with the semantic features of multinomials (11.), with the relation of translated binomials to their (especially Latin or French) source (12.), with differences between authors and texts (13.), with the sequence of elements and the factors 1 Stylistics is, of course, an interdisciplinary field: it is part of linguistics as well as of literary studies. 2Of course we cannot claim completeness -the history of English binomials still remains to be written, and we have only sketched some aspects that can certainly be dealt with in greater detail.

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The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials

Cited by 43 publications

References 138 publications

Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism

Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism

Canny good, orquite canny?

Heaven and Earth, Good and Bad, Answered and Said: A Survey of English Binomials and Multinomials (Part Ii)

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