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 ...
“For reasons of intelligibility ...”. How masculine generics and alternative forms affect the cognitive processing of a textAbstract. It is frequently argued that gender-fair language impairs processing of textual information. To test this assumption, 86 ...
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 (...
Representing masculine generics: A theoretical integration of empirical findingsAbstract. The present paper aims at integrating results from several studies on the representation of masculine generics in German into a theoretical framework. Although ...