Can gender-fair language reduce gender stereotyping and discrimination? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Gender-fair language (GFL) aims at reducing gender stereotyping and discrimination. Two principle strategies have been introduced to make languages gender-fair and to treat women and men symmetrically: neutralization and feminization.
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Comprehensibility of gender-fair language in German-language video lectures [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIn many languages, it is common to use masculine-only forms when all genders are meant or gender is irrelevant to the actual statement. This practice is criticized for making women and members of other genders, their achievements and interests, less ...
Marcus C. G. Friedrich, Bianca Krenz
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How to make a difference: the impact of gender-fair language on text comprehensibility amongst adults with and without an academic background [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionThe proliferation of gender-fair language as a medium of communication that represents all genders can be considered as an exciting development in today's rapidly changing world.
Laura Mathilde Pabst, Marlene Kollmayer
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Warm-hearted businessmen, competitive housewives? Effects of gender-fair language on adolescents’ perceptions of occupations [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Recent studies from countries with grammatical gender languages (e.g., French) found both children and adults to more frequently think of female jobholders and to consider women's success in male dominated occupations more likely when the jobs were ...
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Capturing socially motivated linguistic change. How the use of gender-fair language afffects support for social initiatives in Austria and Poland. [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Gender-fair language consists of the symmetric linguistic treatment of women and men instead of using masculine forms as generics. In this study, we examine how the use of gender-fair language affects readers’ support for social initiatives in Poland and
Magdalena Maria Formanowicz +3 more
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Is Spanish Becoming more Gender Fair? A Historical Perspective on the Interpretation of Gender-specific and Gender-neutral Expressions [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2013 During the last three decades, many recommendations for a gender fair Spanish language have been proposed, but, generally speaking, it has been the substitution of the so-called 'masculine generic' (e.g.
Uwe Kjær Nissen
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Do Anti-Egalitarians Report Increased Support for People with Language Difficulties when Exposed to Gender-Fair Language? [PDF]
Psychologica BelgicaIn many countries, the use of gender-fair language is heavily debated. In France, some opponents to gender-fair language have argued that it hinders language comprehension for people who have difficulties with language (PDLs).
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Exploring the use of gender-fair language by influencers [PDF]
European Journal of Management and Business Economics, 2023 Purpose – Explore the use of Gender-Fair Language (GFL) by influencers on Instagram. Design/methodology/approach – The clustering methodology. A digital Bag-of-Words (BoW) Method called GFL Clustering BoW Methodology to identify whether an inclusive ...
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What is in a Pronoun?: Why Gender-fair Language Matters. [PDF]
Ann Surg, 2017 MINI: Mounting evidence demonstrates that gender inequity is perpetuated by language. As such, understanding the ways in which linguistic bias reinforces gender and other stereotypes is paramount to creating a culture of inclusivity. This perspective reviews the science detailing the ways language reinforces gender inequality and offers strategies to ...
Harris CA, Blencowe N, Telem DA.
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Does gender-fair language pay off? The social perception of professions from a cross-linguistic perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In many languages, masculine forms (e.g., German Lehrer, ‘teachers, masc.’) have traditionally been used to refer to both women and men, although feminine forms are available, too.
Lisa Kristina Horvath +5 more
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