{"id":12564,"date":"2019-09-16T06:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12564"},"modified":"2019-09-15T12:48:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T16:48:50","slug":"linglunch-9-19-hadas-kotek-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/09\/16\/linglunch-9-19-hadas-kotek-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 9\/19 - Hadas Kotek (Apple)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><span>Hadas Kotek (Apple)<\/span><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title<\/strong>: Gender representation in linguistic example sentences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, September 19th, 12:30pm - 1:50 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: This talk surveys two ongoing projects concerned with the representation  of women in example sentences in linguistics. (Collaborations with  Katharina Pabst, Paola C\u00e9peda, Kristen Syrett, Rikker Dockum, Sarah  Babinski, Christopher Geissler.). The first project looks at example sentences in syntax textbooks. Following the adoption of the LSA\u0092s <em>Guidelines for Inclusive Language<\/em>  and the 20th anniversary of Macaulay &amp; Brice (1997: M&amp;B)\u0092s  survey of examples in 11 syntax textbooks, we present an analysis of 6  recent textbooks. We sampled 200 examples from each textbook, and found  that the gender skew and stereotypes reported in M&amp;B are still  present: Among other findings, men are twice as likely to occur as  subjects and receive proper names, and examples often perpetuate gender  stereotypes. The second project examines example sentences published in all papers that have appeared in <em>Language<\/em>, <em>Linguistic Inquiry<\/em>, and <em>Natural Language &amp; Linguistic Theory<\/em>  over the past 20 years. We find many similarities to prior work, but  are able to provide much greater detail. Among our findings: a striking  imbalance of male to female arguments; women are less likely to be  subjects and have names or referring pronouns; they are more likely to  be recipients or kin (mother, sister, etc). We discuss many other  stereotypes in our talk, as well as trends over time and across  journals, and a brief comparison to corpus-based examples published over  the past 20 years in <em>Language in Society<\/em>. I conclude the  talk by discussing the importance of this project for awareness-raising  among individual researchers and (especially) instructors, as well as  how we can improve and do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Hadas Kotek (Apple) Title: Gender representation in linguistic example sentences Time: Thursday, September 19th, 12:30pm - 1:50 pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: This talk surveys two ongoing projects concerned with the representation of women in example sentences in linguistics. (Collaborations with Katharina Pabst, Paola C\u00e9peda, Kristen Syrett, Rikker Dockum, Sarah Babinski, Christopher Geissler.). The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12565,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions\/12565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}