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The Problems of Using a Gender-Neutral Language in Germany
ДискурсIntroduction. The article is devoted to the problems related to the gender reform of the German language. Started on the wave of feminist movement of the 70s of the XX century, the transition to gender-neutral language in recent decades has become one of
Ju. G. Timralieva, A. L. Lomonosova
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Participation and deliberation in language policy: the case of gender-neutral language [PDF]
Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021 This paper investigates language policy formation through participatory and deliberative methods and, more concretely, the regulation of gender-neutral language in Barcelona City Council (Spain). Through an argumentative approach to policy, the paper examines a specific language policy idea, process and solution, and the accompanying discursive ...
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Evaluating Gender Bias in the Translation of Gender-Neutral Languages into English
CoRR, 2023 Machine Translation (MT) continues to improve in quality and adoption, yet the inadvertent perpetuation of gender bias remains a significant concern. Despite numerous studies into gender bias in translations from gender-neutral languages such as Turkish into more strongly gendered languages like English, there are no benchmarks for evaluating this ...
Spencer Rarrick +3 more
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Linguaculture, 2023 This article aims at presenting web content as a genre with specific features, including very precise writers’ and readers’ expectations, diverse functions (skopos), text types and a strong bond with graphics and aesthetics.
Paola Tosi
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How Conservative are Language Models? Adapting to the Introduction of Gender-Neutral Pronouns [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022 Gender-neutral pronouns have recently been introduced in many languages to a) include non-binary people and b) as a generic singular. Recent results from psycholinguistics suggest that gender-neutral pronouns (in Swedish) are not associated with human processing difficulties. This, we show, is in sharp contrast with automated processing.
Stephanie Brandl +2 more
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Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2019 Actuality. Our time is characterised by the penetration of egalitarian ideas of Western liberalism and political correctness in the sphere of language.
Konstantin S Sharov
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Gender-Neutral Language in English and French Linguo-Cultures
enadakultura, 2021 Gender linguistics studies the gender-neutral aspect in detail that is usually manifested in a language. One of its provisions tells us that language not only possesses such qualities as anthropocentrism (human orientations) is, but it also implies androcentrism, that is, that it presents a picture of the world based on a masculine viewpoint, in the ...
Tsiuri Akhvlediani +2 more
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Coursebook of German: Gender Aspect
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2015 The present article regards Aspekte 1 coursebook of German as a foreign language in the context of the gender policy initiated at the end of the last century by sociolinguists and by the representatives of the so called feminist criticism of the German ...
Aleksandra Valeryevna Filippova
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‘To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life?’
International Journal of Literary Linguistics, 2020 Despite several decades of linguistic research and activism, neutral/inclusive language use is far from the norm in English and German. In this article I explore whether the encounter with neutral terminology in June Arnold’s novel The Cook and the ...
Christiane Luck
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Gender sensitive and gender neutral language: The word-world nexus and its fluctuations [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2019 The article focuses on the relationship between language and gender. It explores the ways in which the link between them is reflected in and reflects the socio-political dynamics.
Stefanović Tamara M. +1 more
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