Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The implementation of gender fair language is often associated with negative reactions and hostile attack on people who propose a change. This was also the case in Sweden in 2012 when a third gender-neutral pronoun hen was proposed as an addition to the ...
Marie eGustafsson Sendén +2 more
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Neutral is not fair enough: testing the efficiency of different language gender-fair strategies
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 In many languages with grammatical gender, the use of masculine forms as a generic reference has been associated with a bias favoring masculine-specific representations.
Elsa Spinelli +2 more
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Altering male-dominant representations:a study on nominalized adjectives and participles in first and second language German [PDF]
, 2016 The generic use of masculine plural forms in grammatical gender languages has been criticized for activating unequal gender representations that are male dominant.
Gabriel, Ute +2 more
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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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Is Spanish Becoming more Gender Fair? A Historical Perspective on the Interpretation of Gender-specific and Gender-neutral Expressions [PDF]
, 2013 During the last three decades, many recommendations for a gender fair Spanish language have been proposed, but, generally speaking, it has been the substitution of the so-called 'masculine generic' (e.g.
Uwe Kjær Nissen
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The relation between language and cognition in children aged 3 to 9 : The acquisition of grammatical gender in French [PDF]
, 2007 The French language has a grammatical gender system in which all nouns are assigned either a masculine or a feminine gender. Nouns provide two types of gender cues that can potentially guide gender attribution: morphophonological cues carried by endings ...
Meunier, Frédéric +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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The Interaction of morphological and stereotypical gender information in Russian [PDF]
, 2015 Previous research, for example in English, French, German, and Spanish, has investigated the interplay between grammatical gender information and stereotype gender information (e.g., that secretaries are usually female, in many cultures), in the ...
Barr +19 more
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"(Weitergeleitet von Journalistin)": The Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia [PDF]
, 2017 Previous research has shown the existence of gender biases in the depiction of professions and occupations in search engine results. Such an unbalanced presentation might just as likely occur on Wikipedia, one of the most popular knowledge resources on ...
Arendt Florian +3 more
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Gender representation in different languages and grammatical marking on pronouns: when beauticians, musicians, and mechanics remain men [PDF]
, 2012 Gygax, Gabriel, Sarrasin, Oakhill, and Garnham (2008) showed that readers form a mental representation of gender that is based on grammatical gender in French and German (i.e., masculine supposedly interpretable as a generic form) but is based on ...
Gabriel, Ute +4 more
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