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Backlash Over Gender-Fair Language [PDF]
Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2014 Feminine forms of job titles raise great interest in many countries. However, it is still unknown how they shape stereotypical impressions on warmth and competence dimensions among female and male listeners. In an experiment with fictitious job titles men perceived women described with feminine job titles as significantly less warm and marginally less ...
Michal Bilewicz +2 more
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Four Dimensions of Criticism Against Gender-Fair Language [PDF]
Sex Roles, 2020 AbstractThe gender-neutral third-person pronoun singular hen was recently introduced in Swedish as a complement to she (hon) and he (han). The initiative to add hen initially received strong criticism. In the present study, we analyzed 208 arguments from 168 participants with critical attitudes toward hen.
Marie Gustafsson Senden +2 more
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Reducing a Male Bias in Language? Establishing the Efficiency of Three Different Gender-Fair Language Strategies [PDF]
Sex Roles, 2018 Different strategies of gender-fair language have been applied to reduce a male bias, which means the implicit belief that a word describing an undefined person describes a man. This male bias might be caused by the words themselves in terms of generic masculine or masculine forms or by androcentrism (the conflation of men with humanity).
Marie Gustafsson Senden +2 more
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Feminization and Gender-Fair Language Trends in English and Polish
Polilog: Studia NeofilologiczneThis article examines the trends and processes of feminization and gender-neutralization in English and Polish, discussing how the social and cultural aspects of life infl uence language development.
Marta Gierczyńska-Kolas
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Frontiers in Language SciencesIn public and academic debates, the gender star has been criticized for potentially hindering text comprehensibility and imposing an additional burden on learners of German by complicating an already complex language.
Sofie Decock +4 more
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A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Gender-Fair Language in Advertisements of Cosmetic Products in Ghana [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023 Gender-fair language challenges and dismantles prevailing societal gender preconceptions. Cosmetic advertisements have been criticized for unfair language choices that perpetuate gender stereotypes.
Esther Serwaah Afreh, Obed Atta-Asamoah
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Linguistik Online, 2023 Gender-fair language has been a controversial and topical issue in Germany for over 50 years, both in public and in the professional discourse of German linguistics.
Christine Ivanov, Stephanie Lieboldt
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Gender-Colored English Neologisms in Cinematic Discourse [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2020 The paper dwells upon the study of English neologisms with a gender component in cinematic discourse. The paper considers gender-colored neologisms of the space of cinematic discourse, classified on a semantic basis into neologisms that characterize ...
Katermina Veronika V. +1 more
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Gender – Fair Language in Teaching Basic Education
International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research, 2022 Education aims to create equality and respect through its components. One of those components is the learning delivery of any subject matter wherein language is mainly utilized. The study aimed to determine the usage of the gender sensitive language in teaching basic education at Don Honorio Ventura State University. It specifically sought to answer on
Jerame N. Gamboa +4 more
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The Influence of the Gender Asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) on Comprehensibility and Interest
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recently, the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) has become more widespread in grammatical gender languages in order to represent all genders. Such gender-fair language is intended to help better address women and other genders and make their interests ...
Marcus C. G. Friedrich +3 more
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