Language Meaning (Gender Shaping) Among Blind and Sighted Students

Language Meaning (Gender Shaping) Among Blind and Sighted Students

Blind students showed significant differences from their sighted counterparts in assigning gender to 17 commonly used words out of 50. Language seems to help condition perception, and persons who are deprived of vision seem to have different interpretations concerning the meaning of words in the lan...

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Veröffentlicht in:The journal of psychology 1973-03, Vol.83 (2), p.333-334
Hauptverfasser: Cull, John G., Hardy, Richard E.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Blindness
Female
Humans
Language
Male
Semantic Differential
Sex Factors
Visual Perception
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Zusammenfassung:Blind students showed significant differences from their sighted counterparts in assigning gender to 17 commonly used words out of 50. Language seems to help condition perception, and persons who are deprived of vision seem to have different interpretations concerning the meaning of words in the language.
ISSN:0022-3980
1940-1019
DOI:10.1080/00223980.1973.9915622