{"id":2411,"date":"2021-12-23T18:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2023-02-17T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:58:39","slug":"kristen-syrett-published-in-languagevol-97-number-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/kristen-syrett-published-in-languagevol-97-number-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Syrett published in <em>Language<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/search?action=search&amp;query=author:Kristen%20Syrett:and&amp;min=1&amp;max=10&amp;t=query_term\">Kristen Syrett<\/a> (co-authored with <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/search?action=search&amp;query=author:Paola%20C%C3%A9peda:and&amp;min=1&amp;max=10&amp;t=query_term\">Paola C\u00e9peda<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/search?action=search&amp;query=author:Hadas%20Kotek:and&amp;min=1&amp;max=10&amp;t=query_term\">Hadas Kotek<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/search?action=search&amp;query=author:Katharina%20Pabst:and&amp;min=1&amp;max=10&amp;t=query_term\">Katharina Pabst<\/a>) published an article titled `<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/840953\">Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay &amp; Brice 1997?<\/a>&#8216; in <em>Language<\/em>(Volume 97, Number 4).<\/p>\n<p><em>Abstract<\/em> :\u00a0Macaulay and Brice (1997:798) surveyed example sentences in eleven syntax textbooks published from 1969\u20131994 and found that virtually all of the authors &#8216;favor male-gendered NPs as subjects and agents, and regularly stereotype both genders&#8217;. In this article, we address the question of whether constructed example sentences in more recent textbooks show similar gender bias. We present an analysis of six syntax textbooks published from 2005\u20132017, from which we randomly sampled 200 example sentences each. We find that the gender skew and stereotypes reported in 1997 are still present today. Male-gendered arguments are almost twice as frequent as female-gendered ones, and more likely to occur as subjects and agents. In addition, example sentences often perpetuate gender stereotypes. We discuss some broader implications and potential interventions to prevent the implicit perpetuation of gender biases in linguistic materials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>LSA will be hosting a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">`<strong>Meet the Authors<\/strong>&#8216; webinar<\/span> on Friday, January 28, 2022 at which the authors of \u201c<em>Gender bias in linguistics textbooks<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences<\/em>&#8221; <em>(Language,<\/em>Volume 97, Number 4 (December 2021)), will discuss their examinations of gender bias in linguistics research and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Syrett will also be a part of this webinar. The registration for the webinar is open and can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/register.gotowebinar.com\/register\/4566117178484822030\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Kristen Syrett (co-authored with Paola C\u00e9peda, Hadas Kotek, Katharina Pabst) published an article titled `Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay &amp; Brice 1997?&#8216; in Language(Volume &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/kristen-syrett-published-in-languagevol-97-number-4\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kristen Syrett published in Language - Linguistics Graduate Students Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/kristen-syrett-published-in-languagevol-97-number-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kristen Syrett published in Language - Linguistics Graduate Students Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prof. Kristen Syrett (co-authored with Paola C\u00e9peda, Hadas Kotek, Katharina Pabst) published an article titled `Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay &amp; 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