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Promoting Gender-Fair Language [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Language and Social Psychology, 2014
The present research investigates whether arguments encourage speakers to use and to approve of gender-fair language. We collected and pretested arguments regarding gender-fair language and masculine generics and created four messages which supported either gender-fair usage or masculine generics (strong and weak arguments) as well as two control texts.
Sabine Sczesny
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Just Reading? How Gender-Fair Language Triggers Readers’ Use of Gender-Fair Forms [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Language and Social Psychology, 2014
Gender-fair language, that is, referring to men and women with symmetrical linguistic forms, has been found to promote gender equality, but it is largely unknown which factors help make gender-fair forms more common in everyday life. Two studies examined whether speakers of German used more gender-fair forms after reading a text with gender-fair ...
Koeser, Sara   +2 more
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Gender-Fair Language in Job Advertisements

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2017
The present study investigates whether and how the use of gender-fair language is related to linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic differences between countries with grammatical gender languages. To answer this question, we analyzed job titles in online job advertisements from four European countries differing in achieved gender equality and ...
Magdalena Formanowicz, Sabine Sczesny
exaly   +6 more sources

Actual and Potential Gender-Fair Language Use

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2013
In two paper-and-pencil studies on university students and trainees, we studied how general language competence and the motivation to use accurate language are linked to people’s actual and potential gender-fair language use. Overall, participants’ actual gender-fair language use was lower than their potential.
Elisabeth A. Kuhn, Ute Gabriel
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Gender-Fair Language and Professional Self-Reference

Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2014
The struggle to achieve gender equality is accompanied by efforts to introduce gender-fair language. In languages with grammatical gender this implies the use of gender-appropriate forms (feminine for women and masculine for males). In the present research, results of a mixed method approach—a corpus analysis, a survey, and an experiment—provide ...
Formanowicz, Magdalena, Sczesny, Sabine
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Does gender-fair language matter?

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Abstract Gender-fair language (GFL), a linguistic practice that aims to avoid gender bias or discrimination by using gender-inclusive terms, has been increasingly recognized in various contexts. Despite this growing recognition, the question of how Filipinos view the use of GFL in the workplace remains underexplored.
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comprehensibility of gender-fair language in video lectures

This experiment with N = 272 participants tested the assumption that the use of gender-fair language impairs the comprehensibility of video ...
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Response: “Gender Fair Language Matters?”

Annals of Surgery, 2018
Harris, Chelsea Anne   +2 more
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The Impact of Pronouns and Gender Fair Language in the Workplace

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023
Hayden DuBois   +7 more
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Gender-Fair Language in the Context of Recruiting and Evaluating Leaders

2015
In many languages, masculine forms are still used as generics to address both women and men, although a variety of gender-fair forms (e.g., feminine-masculine word pairs) are available. The following chapter first gives a short introduction to the field of gender-fair language.
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