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TEXT IV Understanding stereotypes Stanford linguists and psychologists study how language is interpreted by people. Even the slightest differences in language use can correspond wi
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FGV · 2024
TEXT IV
Understanding stereotypes
Stanford linguists and psychologists study how language is interpreted by people. Even the slightest differences in language use can correspond with biased beliefs of the speakers, according to research.
One study showed that a relatively harmless sentence, such as “girls are as good as boys at math,” can subtly perpetuate sexist stereotypes. Because of the statement’s grammatical structure, it implies that being good at math is more common or natural for boys than girls, the researchers said.
Language can play a big role in how we and others perceive the world, and linguists work to discover what words and phrases can influence us, unknowingly.
Source: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/08/the-power-of-language-how- words-shape-people-culture
In this context, the word that is similar in meaning to “harmless” is
- damaging.
- loathsome.
- shameful.
- unseemly.
- innoxious.
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Innoxious é a palavra inglesa que corresponde ao sentido de harmless, isto é, algo não prejudicial ou sem capacidade de causar dano.
No contexto do excerto, a expressão "a relatively harmless sentence" indica uma frase que, à primeira vista, parece inofensiva; portanto innoxious reproduz adequadamente essa ideia de ausência aparente de perigo.
Etimologicamente, innoxious combina o prefixo in- (negativo) com noxious (nocivo), resultando em "não nocivo".
Em registro formal, innoxious é sinônimo adequado para traduzir ou substituir harmless quando se quer enfatizar a falta de dano concreto, mesmo que a frase possa ter efeitos sutis sobre estereótipos.
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