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Postscript #5 Vocab and Themes

Olivia Boggis and Jenna Panepinto

Instead of a list of terms, we decided to create a fun crossword that you can try, incorporating important vocabulary from these past couple of weeks and, also some overall themes from the course. So, have a crack at it - and good luck!!

Word Bank
Transgender, Cisgender, Heteronormativity, Prejudice, Antilocution, Asexual, Intersex, Gender, Sex, Queer, Pygmalion, Heterosexual, Homosexual, Rape, Gender neutral pronouns, Verbal hygiene, Double bind, Normalization, Political correctness, Polysemy, Community of practice, Index, Bisexual, Genderless, Gender identity, Anger, Barracking, Assertive training, Epicene, Context, Power, Mediated, Hegemony, Implied consent

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3.A person who experiences sexual, romantic, physical, and/ or spiritual attraction to people of their own gender as well as another gender
5.Thinking about our theme of the window that is never clear, we realize that verbal self-expression and communication are always ________ by the language used (Hint: look at our syllabus)
7.A dominating ideology
10.George Lakoff believes that the clearest proof of the extent to which our awareness of physical states permeates the language we use can be seen in metaphors we employ to express the emotion of __________
11.A pronoun that refers to either men or women
13.A person with a set of sexual anatomy that does not fit within the labels of female or male
19.Refers to social processes through which ideas and actions come to be seen as 'normal'
20.Consent which is not expressly granted by a person, but rather inferred from a person's actions (or in some cases, by a person's silence or inaction) (2 Words)
21.Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
22.A form of discrimination in which negative verbal remarks against a person, group, or community are made and not addressed directly to the target
26.Language is always about who has the ________ to define and establish meanings and who doesn't
27.A description for a person whose gender identity, gender expression, and biological sex all align
28.A person who does not identify with any gender
30.Cameron explores popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use, which she calls ___________ (Hint: title of her book) (2 Words)
31.A term that has been embraced and reclaimed by the LGBTQ community as a symbol of pride, representing all individuals who fall out of the gender and sexuality "norms"
33.Ze and hir are examples of this (3 Words)
34.The belief that heterosexuality is the norm in society
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1.The unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse (Hint: George Lakoff talks about a connection between this and anger)
2.A medical definition for a person who is attracted to someone with the other gender than they have (Hint: often referred to as "straight")
4.To do this would mean 'to point' to something (Hint: spoken about in Cameron and Kulick)
6.A medical definition for a person who is attracted to someone with the same gender they have
8.Women MPs, as Shaw concludes, are constructed as outsiders by sexist ______ (Hint: otherwise known as "taunting" or "chirping")
9.A person who generally does not experience sexual attraction (or very little) to any group of people
12.The avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against (2 Words)
14.Not identifying with a certain gender at birth; a blanket term used to describe all people who are not cisgender
15.Language is radically ________ dependent; we can never know what a word means just from a dictionary
16.Language is defined by how a community defines it; emphasis on a set of actions by an individual that are extremely variable (Hint: McConnell-Ginet speaks to this in regards to sexist semantics in sexist discourse) (3 Words)
17.A play about both class and gender, in which a there exists a powerful male creator and a malleable female, and in which the class hierarchy between the two reinforces the gender hierarchy
18.Cameron talks about how this type of "therapy" focuses on particular strategies for communicating verbally, essentially for women (Hint: AT for short) (2 Words)
23.The internal perception of an individual's gender, and how they label themselves (2 Words)
24.A situation where a person has to deal with two conflicting demands (Hint: in Lakoff's words: "you're damed if you do, you're damned if you don't") (2 Words)
25.Masculine and feminine
29.Multiple meanings
32.Male and female

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