Deborah Cameron in Verbal Hygiene (1995)
- Throughout Western culture the masculine/male has been the unmarked normality in the language
- The feminine/female is the marked form for language
- E.g. Unmarked male forms used to be 'manager', 'usher' and 'Paul'
- E.g Marked female forms used to be 'manageress', 'usherette' and 'Pauline'
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