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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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Gender-fair language as an object of amateur language criticism in German media
Vestnik 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
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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.
Hellen Petronella Vergoossen +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).
Anna Lindqvist +2 more
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Indicators of a successful gender-fair language reform [PDF]
, 2023 Gender-fair language has been promoted since the 1970s to confront the androcentric use of masculine forms to refer to people in general (i.e., the masculine generic). The research presented in this dissertation was aimed at evaluating the success of gender-fair language reforms in various languages and speech communities.
Hodel, Lea
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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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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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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 ...
Budziszewska, Magdalena +2 more
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Strategies That Affect Individuals’ Gender-Fair Language Use
, 2021 Language reproduces and produces gender and reality, hence plays a significant role in pursuing an equitable society without discrimination based on gender categories. The promotion of gender-fair language through feminization and neutralization strategies has led to an increase in the use of gender-fair language in recent decades.
Kuhn, Elisabeth Angela
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