paper illustrates how the language used to describe violence against women may act to minimise these acts and the dominant …This paper examines the theory behind and some examples of the relationships between gender, language, cognition and … perception in the context of the criminal justice system. In particular, we consider the language of domestic violence and sexual …

statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross … language structures spoken by individuals with a shared religious and ethnic background residing in the same country. We show … that speaking a gendered language is associated with the belief that intimate partner violence is justifiable. Our results …