Are women included? An empirical study of the generic masculine and its alternativesSummary: The present study was conducted in order to examine what kind of mental representations are evoked by the so-called “generic masculine” and alternative ...
Effects of the generic use of the masculine pronoun and alternative forms of speech on the cognitive visibility of womenAbstract.Feminist linguistics have postulated that a masculine pronoun that is used in a generic sense (”he“ to indicate a male or ...
On the acceptability and psychological impact of generic masculine and alternative person designations in legal textsAbstract. The present study examines the acceptability of different person designation forms in an original legal text. Participants (N = ...
Zusammenfassung. In zwei experimentellen Studien wurden anhand von längeren Texten die Thesen der Feministischen Linguistik überprüft, dass (1) das “generische“ Maskulinum zu einer “Benachteiligung“ von Frauen im Denken der SprachbenutzerInnen führt, was (...
This study investigates the influence of sex of respondent, context valence, and type of generic on the naming of female personalities in Norway where the feminine suffixing has dropped away in reaction to the problem of linguistic sexism. A total of 162 ...