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Cognitive Effects of Masculine Generics in German: An Overview of Empirical Findings [PDF]

open access: yesCommunications: the European Journal of Communication Research, 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 ...
Sabine Sczesny
exaly   +5 more sources

Are Second Person Masculine Generics Easier to Process for Men than for Women? Evidence from Polish [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
In Polish, it is obligatory to mark feminine or masculine grammatical gender on second-person singular past tense verbs (e.g., Dostałaś list ‘You received-F a letter’).
Agnieszka Szuba   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

A Language Index of Grammatical Gender Dimensions to Study the Impact of Grammatical Gender on the Way We Perceive Women and Men [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several biases associated with how gender is linguistically realized in language.
Pascal Mark Gygax   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

GRAMMATICALMENTE O IDEOLOGICAMENTE CORRETTO? L’IMPIEGO DEL MASCHILE GENERICO NEI MANUALI DI ITALIANO PER STRANIERI

open access: yesItaliano 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Is There a Woman in Los Candidatos? Gender Perception with Masculine “Generics” and Gender-Fair Language Strategies in Spanish

open access: yesLanguages
This study examines how several gender-encoding strategies in Spanish and social factors influence gender perception, reinforcing or mitigating a sexist male bias.
Laura Vela-Plo   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements [PDF]

open access: yesDiscourse 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
openaire   +3 more sources

Alcohol use and generational masculinity [PDF]

open access: yesNordic 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 ...
Emiliussen, Jakob, Morrison, Alastair
openaire   +2 more sources

Are feminine generics more gender-fair than masculine generics? A comparison of French "personne" and "individu" across stereotype contexts

open access: yes, 2023
A growing body of research shows that readers/listeners are biased by the grammatical gender of a noun when making inferences about the gender of its referent.
Benjamin Storme, Laura Delaloye Saillen
core   +1 more source

Children's linguistic processing of stereotype information and masculine generics

open access: yes, 2023
The investigates children's perception and processing of gender-stereotypes and masculine generics. The study will be conducted in German language. In German there is a masculine and female form of role-nouns.
Lilly Hollnagel, Christian Kliesch
core   +1 more source

On Sexism in Language and Language Change – The Case of Peninsular Spanish

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2011
The Spanish language has been described as a sexist language due to the peculiar characteris-tics of its gender morphology. It is indicated by the o ('masculine') and a ('feminine') gender morphemes which generally represent male and female respectively.
Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey
doaj   +1 more source

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