"Women changing language"is a book written by Anne pauwels.It is first published in the united states of America by Addison wesley longman Inc,NewYork in 1998.Anne pauwels is a professor of linguistics, Dean of the facualty of Arts, humanities and social sciences. Her research interests and expertise draw upon two areas of sociolinguistics,the first is about language in contact and linguistic diversity and the second is about language and gender which is crystalized in this book.Actually (<-- TAKE THIS PART OUT). The title of Anne Pauwels book "WOMEN CHANGING LANGUAGE"reflects a feminist perspective.Anne pauwels has a challenging attitude as she seeks to eliminate gender discrimination and calls for the equal treatment of women and men in all spheres of life even in language.This book tackles sexism in language and how sexes are in an unequal status.It also sheds light on the feminist impact on language and the role of women as makers of meaning.In fact, the book begins with a comprehensive introduction about the bias concerns the portrayal of men as the norm and women as the appendage. This phenomenon is called linguistic sexism. It also includes the description and the discussion of feminist language reform from a language planning perspective.It reveals women as activists and as language planners proposing as well as implementing changes. Women's subordination in society and that there is a link between women's subordinate status in society and the androcentrism in language.(INCOMPLETE) The book also includes a well-structured table of content.It begins with a publisher's acknowledgements,author's acknowledgements where the author presents her gratitude to her colleagues,friends and feminist organisations who have provided her with the inspiration for this book.She also thanks the editors who commented on the book.(NOT IMPORTANT) The book is divided into seven books ordered chronologically.Firstly, It starts with informing the reader about language planning,how is language is planned and who are language planners are.Secondly,she tackles how sexism works in language.Thirdly,pauwels asked should sexist language be changed and elaborates its answer perfectly.Fourthly,the author presents the way in which sexist language should/may/could be changed.Fifthly,Pauwels implements non- sexist language change.Then she makes evaluation of(evaluates) feminist language change.Finally,she asked a question is the change occured or not? Moreover,There are concluding remarks,appendix,bibliography,author index,in addition to subject index to smplify the method of understanding.There is no doubt that(AVOID using this type of assertive phrases) Pauwels succeeded in presenting her point of view to convince the reader with feminst(SPELLING) language reform to reach the elimination of sexism in language Sally: In addition to the comments in red, make sure that tenses in the review are consistent. Usually the present is used in reviews. Whatever the tense is, be consistent.
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