Gender Fair Language: The Nascent Emergence for Gender Equity

Gender Fair Language: The Nascent Emergence for Gender Equity Dr Sudhir Narayan Singh & Dr Aparna Singh In this century English language not only acquired the status of global communicative language, but it stimulated the attention of professionals of various business class gentry also. Liberalization, Privatisation, and Globalisation [LPG] gave English new heights, and on the track of information-superhighways, this language could gel-well with the Information & Communication Technology [ICT]. The historic journey of this lingua-franca revolutionized every walk of human life where the very inherent masculine construct and inert established norms of this language couldn’t remain unchanged and unchallengeable. Many such apparently visible changes surfacing and various subtly deep invisible undercurrents consequently give birth to new varieties of English by transforming the holistic body of living and growing organism i.e. language. As the feminist movements marched on from First Wave-to-Second Wave, and From Second Wave-to-Third Wave; various attempts to influence the morphological glossary structure of the English language, and induct newly devised gender-fair vocabulary was made ceaselessly. At the threshold of the twenty-first century, the quest for gender-fair language has emerged as one pivotal development to challenge the very masculine construct of the language by attacking the traditionally established norms. The present study attempts to investigate these emerging phenomena and identify various factors contributing to the birth, growth, and development of Gender Fair Language which indisputably remains one of the nascent emerging varieties of English. Key Terms-- Gender Fair Language, e language. So to the Marxists language being subject of New Varieties of English, Gender Neutral Language & Feminizing Language Thrust Area-- Gender Equity: New Varieties of English Language Track-- Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences

GENDER FAIR LANGUAGE: RATIONALE BEHIND ITS EVOLUTION

Every language reflects the bearings of its culture so eventually, it presents its sustained belief systems, practices and norms in order of organizing the living pattern. Therefore the Marxist and feminist critics recently have challenged the established structure of language as it carries a biased notion for the marginalized segment of human civilization the lower economic class and the subordinated gender. The language though being in hands of the power class is structured the opposite of reality and functions as a device to subjugate the destitute category. As the power constructs and manipulates ideologies and concepts to favor their rule by authenticating it through language and literature. In a culture from a generation to another, the power dynamics between the classes and gender flows and is maintained through thmanipulation for the powerful strata of society is not an innocent construction and hence they raise a dispute over its age-long formation and advocate for fair use of language. GFL FOR LINGUISTIC GENDER EQUITY: THE RIGHT CHOICE & THE RIGHT TOOL TO REALISE GENDER RIGHTS In a nutshell, adopting, accepting, assimilating GFL will definitely widen and further the psychological, personal, socio-cultural and professional horizons. In the era of spearheading competitiveness on the rapid pacing track of information superhighways and to touch upon the ultimate professional zenith, the netizens (cyber citizens) will have to practice GFL for realizing their dream success and being the right professional. REFERENCES [1] Chauhan, N. K. & Singh, S. N., (2013) Formal Letters, Preface p-p: ix-xiii, Ed. 1st, Pankaj Publication International, New Delhi. (Print) [2] https://www.britannica.com/contributo... browsed as on November 03, 2019. (Web) [3] http://www.anucde.info/14-11-2018%20O... browsed as on November 18, 2019. (Web) [4] http://www.bhojvirtualuniversity.com/... browsed as on October 23, 2019. (Web) [5] Boroditsky, Lera. (2011) How Language shapes thought?, Scientific American, February p.65. (Print) [6] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/491e... browsed as on November 18, 2019. (Web) [7] https://www2.ncte.org/statement/gende... browsed as on November 18, 2019. (Web) [8] https://www.marxists.org/archive/volo... browsed as on November 12, 2019. (Web) [9] https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg... browsed as on November 12, 2019. (Web) [10] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/... browsed as on November 12, 2019. (Web)