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20 This must necessarily involve the media (see Koniuszaniec & Blaszkowska 2003: 277), because they surely have an important role to play in disseminating 'non-sexist' language use. Notes 1 Henceforth all references are to studies contained in this volume, unless otherwise specified. 2 According to Curzan (2000: 572): The way in which language users make distinctions between male and female and between masculine and feminine in their culture will be reflected in the distinctions they made between masculine and feminine in their language, as long as the gender system is a semantic one.
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