Comprehensibility of gender-fair language in German-language video lectures [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIn many languages, it is common to use masculine-only forms when all genders are meant or gender is irrelevant to the actual statement. This practice is criticized for making women and members of other genders, their achievements and interests, less ...
Marcus C. G. Friedrich, Bianca Krenz
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Capturing socially motivated linguistic change. How the use of gender-fair language afffects support for social initiatives in Austria and Poland. [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Gender-fair language consists of the symmetric linguistic treatment of women and men instead of using masculine forms as generics. In this study, we examine how the use of gender-fair language affects readers’ support for social initiatives in Poland and
Magdalena Maria Formanowicz +3 more
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Cognitive Effects of Masculine Generics in German: An Overview of Empirical Findings [PDF]
Communications, 2005 This article presents a series of experiments which were conducted among native speakers of German to determine the influence of different types of German generics on the cognitive inclusion of women. Results indicate that the inclusion of women is higher with ‘non-sexist’ alternatives than with masculine generics, a tendency which was consistent ...
Braun, Friederike +2 more
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Are Second Person Masculine Generics Easier to Process for Men than for Women? Evidence from Polish. [PDF]
J Psycholinguist Res, 2022 Szuba A, Redl T, de Hoop H.
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Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements [PDF]
Discourse Processes, 2022 An eye-tracking experiment was conducted with speakers of Dutch (N=84, 36 male), a language that falls in between grammatical and natural gender languages. We tested whether a masculine generic pronoun causes a male bias when used in generic statements, that is, in the absence of a specific referent.
Theresa Redl +4 more
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Alcohol use and generational masculinity [PDF]
Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2017 Introduction: Alcohol ranks as a major risk factor for health-related harm and mortality. Older males who encounter alcohol problems late in life are an under-studied part of the affected population. This article seeks to broaden our understanding of this group by combining empirical data with humanistic cultural analysis.
Emiliussen, Jakob, Morrison, Alastair
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‘CEO equals man’: Gender and informal organisational practices in English sport governance [PDF]
, 2019 © The Author(s) 2019. © YYYY Owner. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Piggott, L. V., & Pike, E. C. (2019). ‘CEO equals man’: Gender and informal organisational practices in English sport governance.
Piggott, Lucy, Pike, Elizabeth
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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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La equidad de género en la educación física: El uso del lenguaje [PDF]
, 2014 This study analyzed Spanish teachers' behavior and the transmission of gender stereotypes. We observed 48 physical education lessons given by four Spanish teachers (two men and two women).
Campos Mesa, María del Carmen +3 more
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Italiano LinguaDue, 2022 In questo studio si analizza la posizione assegnata al genere maschile nella rappresentazione della sfera professionale in quattro libri di testo di italiano come lingua straniera impiegati nel particolare contesto di insegnamento e apprendimento dell ...
Natasa Vučenović
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