2. List the three words you find that are implicitly gender*sex-marked.
4. Give a definition of each word. You may use a dictionary for the definition. Using a dictionary can be helpful because if the definition includes a mention of gender*sex, then you will know that your word is not appropriate for this assignment.
6. Explain how it is marked for gender/sex. That is, explain why you believe that the word you have chosen is implicitly gender*sex-marked as male OR female. Thinking of the example of nurse used below, you could point out that it is more common to see female nurses than it is to see male nurses; you could also point out that the phrase "male nurse" exists and gets used but the phrase "female nurse" is not deemed necessary since most people think of nurses as women already.

You cannot use the words listed in the example for this assignment.

Explicitly Gender*Sex-Marked

For example, the word "she" is explicitly gender-marked since the definition includes 'female'. Another example is the word "hostess." This word is explicitly gender*sex-marked because in English, the morpheme ~ess indicates that the noun it is attached to is referring to a female. Thus, in English we have the word host and hostess; the word host refers to male persons while the word hostess refers to female persons. The gender*sex of the person is included explicitly in the word itself. This is a kind of gender*sex which is encoded grammatically since the morpheme "~ ess" carries the meaning "female/woman."

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Implicitly gendersexmarked words are those where the gender or sex of the person associated with the ... View the full answer