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- Genderless languages do have various means to recognize natural gender, such as gender-specific words (mother, son, etc., and distinct pronouns such as he and she in some cases), as well as gender-specific context, both biological and cultural.
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A genderless language is a natural or constructed language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement between nouns and associated pronouns, adjectives, articles, or verbs.
Genderless languages do have various means to recognize natural gender, such as gender-specific words (mother, son, etc., and distinct pronouns such as he and she in some cases), as well as gender-specific context, both biological and cultural.
The world’s four most spoken gendered languages are Hindi, Spanish, French and Arabic. They share many of the same gender patterns: masculine as the default grammatical gender,...
Mar 11, 2020 · Finally, there are genderless languages, in which a pronoun can refer to either gender, such as Chinese and Finnish. Earlier research has found that in countries where gendered languages are spoken, women earn lower wages and are less likely to succeed in politics.
- Gender in Language
- Language and Gender Equality
- Grammatical Gender in Language and Gender Equality
- Overview of Current Investigation
- Hypotheses
As noted above, the use of gender specific nouns and pronouns is one way of classifying gender in language. A lack of grammatical gender, however, does not necessarily reflect gender neutrality (Braun 2001; Engelberg 2002), and so it would be mistaken to believe that the grammatically genderless languages automatically lead to a more gender-neutral...
Increasingly scholars and researchers recognize the power that asymmetries in lexical gender, male false generics, and the systematic way language becomes gendered can have on social gender stereotypes and inequities in status between men and women (Schneider 2004). For example, feminist scholars have long decried that masculine generics are androc...
Although ample empirical research demonstrates that reducing the use of masculine generic pronouns promotes the inclusion of women, there are no empirical studies that we are aware of which attempt to investigate the overall relationship between all three grammatical gender groups and gender equality. Wasserman and Weseley (2009) demonstrate that g...
In the current investigation, we explored the relationship between countries’ grammatical gender language systems and indices of gender equality. To do this, we categorized an extensive list of countries as having either a gendered, natural gender, or genderless orientation, and then used grammatical gender system as a fixed grouping variable to co...
Given the previous research outline above demonstrating the difficulty involved in crafting gender fair communications in gendered languages, we anticipated the following: 1. Hypothesis 1.Countries predominated by a gendered language system should consistently evidence less gender equality across the various indexes than countries where natural gen...
- Jennifer L. Prewitt-Freilino, T. Andrew Caswell, Emmi K. Laakso
- 2012
Aug 5, 2019 · There seems little evidence to show that removing bias from language has a meaningful impact. Research on Turkish by Friederike Braun, an expert on linguistic gender, seems to support this view...
Jan 18, 2022 · The question of pronouns is asked increasingly as an acceptance of a spectrum of gender and sexual identity grows. Read our blog to get more insight into how this is influencing language.
