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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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"Miss"ing Me and "Ms"ing the Other: Courtesy Titles for Women in Englishes
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Winter, Joanne; Pauwels, Anne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2007
The introduction and spread of "Ms" as the courtesy address title for women is a cornerstone of feminist linguistic planning for English. Its introduction aimed to eradicate the discriminatory inequity in the address system that exposed women through their (non)marital relationship with men. The understanding, use and impact of the courtesy title…
Descriptors: Feminism, Speech Communication, Language Variation, Females
Generic Pronouns and Gender-Inclusive Language Reform in the English of Singapore and the Philippines
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Pauwels, Anne; Winter, Joanne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
The concurrent trends of globalisation and "indigenisation" affecting the English language (varieties) around the world pose some interesting questions for language planning and reform issues (e.g. Phillipson, 1992; Pennycook, 1994; Crystal, 1997). With this project we examine the impact of these competing trends on "corpus planning" relating to…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Planning, Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries
Discourse as a Resource: Methods of Collecting Language Attitudes.
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Winter, Joanne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1992
Exploratory ideas about discourse analysis as a method for the collection and analysis of language attitudes are presented. The data for the investigation is a series of group negotiations among female and male speakers from Anglo-Australian and Greek-Australian backgrounds. (23 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Intergroup Relations, Language Attitudes