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🍁 Miss, Mrs., or Ms.?

✍🏻 George Yule:
In English, people without special titles are addressed as Mr., Mrs., Miss or Ms. Only the women’s address terms include information about their social status. In fact, one address term for a woman indicates that she is the wife of a particular man as in Mrs. Dexter Smith (or just Mrs. Smith). Dexter is never addressed as Mr. (Betsy) Cuddlesworth. When the original system was put in place, women were identified socially through their relationship to a man, either as wife or daughter. These address terms continue to function as social category labels, identifying women, but not men, as married or not. A woman using Ms. as part of her address term is indicating that her social categorization is not based on her marital status. (Yule, 2020: 318)

✍🏻 DeLamater et al:
[R]esearch conducted in the 1980s found that women labeled “Ms.” were seen as more achieving, more masculine, and less likable than women labeled “Mrs.” (Dion & Schuller, 1991). These impressions were consistent with the high-competence, low-warmth stereotype of feminists in general (Fiske et al., 2002), who were often associated with the term. However, today’s college students are more likely to see “Ms.” as related to marital status rather than concerns about sexism and, therefore, rate “Ms.” as positively as “Mrs.” or “Miss” (Lawton et al., 2003). (DeLamater et al, 2024: 204)

📚 DeLamater, John D. & Collett, R Jessica L. & Hitlin, Steven. (2024). Social Psychology. 10th edition. UK: Routledge.

📚 Yule, George. (2020). The Study of Language. 7th edition. UK: Cambridge.

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🍁 Miss, Mrs., or Ms.?

✍🏻 George Yule:
In English, people without special titles are addressed as Mr., Mrs., Miss or Ms. Only the women’s address terms include information about their social status. In fact, one address term for a woman indicates that she is the wife of a particular man as in Mrs. Dexter Smith (or just Mrs. Smith). Dexter is never addressed as Mr. (Betsy) Cuddlesworth. When the original system was put in place, women were identified socially through their relationship to a man, either as wife or daughter. These address terms continue to function as social category labels, identifying women, but not men, as married or not. A woman using Ms. as part of her address term is indicating that her social categorization is not based on her marital status. (Yule, 2020: 318)

✍🏻 DeLamater et al:
[R]esearch conducted in the 1980s found that women labeled “Ms.” were seen as more achieving, more masculine, and less likable than women labeled “Mrs.” (Dion & Schuller, 1991). These impressions were consistent with the high-competence, low-warmth stereotype of feminists in general (Fiske et al., 2002), who were often associated with the term. However, today’s college students are more likely to see “Ms.” as related to marital status rather than concerns about sexism and, therefore, rate “Ms.” as positively as “Mrs.” or “Miss” (Lawton et al., 2003). (DeLamater et al, 2024: 204)

📚 DeLamater, John D. & Collett, R Jessica L. & Hitlin, Steven. (2024). Social Psychology. 10th edition. UK: Routledge.

📚 Yule, George. (2020). The Study of Language. 7th edition. UK: Cambridge.

#️⃣ #زبان_و_جنسیت

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