Can gender-fairness be established in language? : an evaluation of the acceptance of language change in a German speech community

In 1980, the first German proposals for gender-fairness in language were published in Germany. They suggested many gender-fair alternatives to items such as the generic masculine, which were believed to convey androcentric or sexist meanings. Since then critics of androcentrism in the German languag...

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Main Author: Huth, Petra Alexandra
Published: Queen Mary, University of London 2007
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439350