“When a person talks too much, they learn little” : An Approach to Gender Contrast and Inclusive Language in English and Spanish
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“When a person talks too much, they learn little” : An Approach to Gender Contrast and Inclusive Language in English and SpanishAutor(es)
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Lezcano, EmmaData
2023Centro/Dpto/Entidade
Universidade da Coruña. Facultade de FiloloxíaDescrición
Traballo fin de grao (UDC.FIL). Inglés: estudios lingüísticos y literarios. Curso 2022/2023Resumo
[Abstract] Grammatical gender is classified as an innate category of language that organises
the way human beings communicate. This paper analyses the category of gender in
English and Spanish from a contrastive perspective in order to observe differences and
similarities. As a result of these contrasts, it has been observed that Spanish favours more
gender discrimination due to its linguistic configuration, whilst English fosters a greater
inclusivity. Complementary to this aspect, special attention has been devoted to inclusive
language, a category within gender that has been of growing interest over the past years.
In this way, an in-depth analysis of real language samples from two different fields has
been carried out in order to observe the actual application of inclusive language. Thus,
documents belonging to Spanish and English universities have been selected together
with a series of governmental writings in order to analyse the presence of inclusive
language. The aspects observed, far from illustrating the new vision of inclusive
language, display a controversial attitude. In this way, documents with a wider scope
follow a stronger adherence to inclusive rules; however, documents that are exclusive to
a particular group ignore these guidelines. All in all, the present project contributes to
illustrate the important role of grammatical gender in language and the importance of the
development and implementation of inclusive language. Furthermore, this exposition
could undoubtedly stimulate interest in further research on the subject.
Palabras chave
Grammatical gender
Inclusive language
Singular they
University
Government
Sexism
Inclusive language
Singular they
University
Government
Sexism
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