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Assignment: Accupational Stereotypes In Japan

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Assignment Task 2: Sociolinguistic survey.
Gender-neutral language in the job’s titles: occupational stereotypes in Japan.

Introduction.
In these days of economical globalization in contemporary Japan English is slowly becoming part of everyday life. For example, most of international companies based in Tokyo use English as a communication language; moreover some Japanese traditional companies who are doing business globally use written English to communicate with their international business partners. However, economic development and modernization can’t assure gender equality.
In the past, most of the surveys in occupational stereotypes have been done outside of Japan, mainly the countries where the English is a first language; in fact, …show more content…

Due to my current geographical location my survey was conducted in Japan, Tokyo. The participants of this survey are twenty-four (12 female and 12 males) Japanese bilinguals; their age from 25 to 65 years old. Currently all of them are working in different industries, and employed by various international and Japanese companies in Japan, Tokyo. The participants are my colleagues, acquaintances and friends; they have almost same educational background (University educated) and socioeconomic status. However, this research doesn’t focus on educational, socioeconomic, age or other factors apart from the gender.
Most of the surveys on occupational stereotypes have been done in the UK and USA (Cameron, 2005, p. 499). Therefore, I think it would be interesting to examine the phenomenon in Japan, where the labour force is open and officially giving an equal opportunity to both men and women (Adachi, 2013, p.641). However, according to the Global Gender Gap Report, Japan’s 2012 gender gap indicates complete inequality. The aim of this survey is identity existence of jot-titles stereotypes in Japan, and whether the male and females see occupational stereotypes differently than in previous studies.

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police officer, chair person) are stereotypically associated with the male’ gender (Lassonde & O’Brien, 2013, p. 389). Even though, large number of the participants (Table 3. 33% “strongly agree” and 33% “somewhat agree”) agree that using neutral-gender language as an important fact of showing respect, 37% (Table 3) of the participants think that terms like “chairman” and “policemen” sound more natural than “chairperson” and “police officer”. I think the word “man” is influencing choice of English second language speakers regarding to particular job titles. The English language contains a serious ambiguity; consider the word “man”, which can be used to mean not only one adult male, but also a person of unspecified gender or all human beings (Sniezek & Jazwinski,

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