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Backlash Over Gender-Fair Language [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
exaly   +3 more sources

Four Dimensions of Criticism Against Gender-Fair Language [PDF]

open access: yesSex 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
exaly   +3 more sources

Gender-fair language as an object of amateur language criticism in German media

open access: yesVestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature, 2021
The article deals with interpretation of gender problems in amateur criticism of the German language. The goal of the study is to define specific features of gender-fair language forms, to detect the arguments of the discussion members as well as their linguistic explanation, and to consider the means of assessment used in discussion about gender-fair ...
Liudmila Ia. Slinina   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Gender-fair language in translation and post-editing

open access: yes
Synopsis: Machine Translation (MT) models knowingly suffer from gender bias, especially for genders beyond the binary. Since issues of non-binary representation and language use are still often neglected in both Translation Studies (TS) and MT, this book investigates the translation and post-editing of gender-fair language beyond the binary in a ...
Lardelli, Manuel
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Reducing a Male Bias in Language? Establishing the Efficiency of Three Different Gender-Fair Language Strategies [PDF]

open access: yesSex 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
exaly   +3 more sources

Gender-fair language in translation and post-editing: Insights and best practices

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Machine Translation (MT) models knowingly suffer from gender bias, especially for genders beyond the binary. Since issues of non-binary representation and language use are still often neglected in both Translation Studies (TS) and MT, this book ...
Lardelli, Manuel
core   +11 more sources

Feminization and Gender-Fair Language Trends in English and Polish

open access: yesPolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne
This 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Comprehensibility of gender-fair language among foreign language learners of German: an experimental study

open access: yesFrontiers in Language Sciences
In 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
doaj   +2 more sources

A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Gender-Fair Language in Advertisements of Cosmetic Products in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yesE-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
doaj   +1 more source

Von „Studierenden“, „Mitarbeiter*innen“ und „Professoren“ – Geschlechtergerechte Personenbezeichnungen zwischen Varianz und Normierung

open access: yesLinguistik 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
doaj   +1 more source

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