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View article: Less than one percent of words would be affected by gender-inclusive language in German press texts
Less than one percent of words would be affected by gender-inclusive language in German press texts Open
Research on gender and language is tightly knitted to social debates on gender equality and non-discriminatory language use. Psycholinguistic scholars have made significant contributions in this field. However, corpus-based studies that in…
View article: Shifting social norms as a driving force for linguistic change: Struggles about language and gender in the German Bundestag
Shifting social norms as a driving force for linguistic change: Struggles about language and gender in the German Bundestag Open
This paper focuses on language change based on shifting social norms, in particular with regard to the debate on language and gender. It is a recurring argument in this debate that language develops "naturally" and that "severe interventio…
View article: 5 Socio-linguistic effects on conditional constructions: A quantitative typological study
5 Socio-linguistic effects on conditional constructions: A quantitative typological study Open
Recent typological studies have shown that socio-linguistic factors have a substantial effect on at least certain structures of language. However, we are still far from understanding how such factors should be operationalized and how they …