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