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The Medicalisation of Gender Nonconformity through Language: a Keywords Analysis
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In: sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies (2021)
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Language is an important part of the way gender nonconformity is legislated and medicalised. In 2012, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) changed the nomenclature of the ‘gender identity disorder’ (GID) to ‘gender dysphoria in the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to reduce the social stigma attached to transgender identities. While the recognition of gender nonconformity by the medical authorities has led to some beneficial consequences, scholars have shown that the language of pathology has narrowed the definitions of gender nonconformity and has created social stigma. I use the web pages of five major health providers of English-speaking countries and corpus-based software and tools to demonstrate how the language change of the DSM-5 is yet to be implemented by the medical authorities of five major English-speaking countries. Contrary to the goal of the APA, I show that the language of pathology used by major health providers seems to restrict the definition of some identities outside the binary. My findings reveal that the terminology used in the five websites is incoherent with the new standards created by the providers themselves, and it constructs a non-inclusive description of pathology.
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and Ethnicity in Communication; and Sexuality Studies; Applied Linguistics; Feminist; Gender; Health and Medical Administration; Linguistics; Medical Humanities; Race; Race and Ethnicity; Sexuality
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URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/sprinkle/vol14/iss1/5 https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1036&context=sprinkle
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Kanji learning by Japanese language learners from alphabetic backgrounds: an examination of how ‘component analysis’ impacts learners of differential proficiencies
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Hurley, Ian. - : Dublin City University. School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, 2021
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In: Hurley, Ian (2021) Kanji learning by Japanese language learners from alphabetic backgrounds: an examination of how ‘component analysis’ impacts learners of differential proficiencies. PhD thesis, Dublin City University. (2021)
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Effects of expanding retrieval practice in the learning of an increasing set of second language vocabulary ...
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Vocabulary Scaffolding Features and Young Readers’ Comprehension of Digital Text: Insights from a Big Observational Dataset ...
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Transfer in adult bilinguals’ processing and comprehension of multimorphemic words. ...
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Turkish pre-service English teachers' level of FLSA and their perceptions of NNEST: a case in a high-ranking state university ...
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The impact of metaphor in people's perception and attitudes towards lockdown measures ...
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"May vs. Might" - How do Turkish speakers of English differ from native English speakers in terms of how they perceive the possibility and certainty of sentences? ...
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Reading Anxiety Level and Performance on IELTS Reading Comprehension ...
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Supplementary Materials and Data Vocal Stress Diary Study ...
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Science communication: Does linguistic complexity of vaccination information affect vaccination willingness? (German sample) ...
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Localized Globalization: Directives in Augmented Reality Game Interaction
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2021)
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Translanguaging in the Culturally Diverse Classrooms of a South African School: Towards Improving Academic Success and Literacy Competencies, a Paradigm Shift to Translingualism? ...
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Translanguaging in the Culturally Diverse Classrooms of a South African School: Towards Improving Academic Success and Literacy Competencies, a Paradigm Shift to Translingualism? ...
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