Reprezentace genericky maskulinních názvů osob: teoretická integrace dosavadních poznatků

• Authors: Lisa Irmen , Ute Linner

Title variants

EN

Representing masculine generics: a theoretical integration of empirical findings

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper aims to integrate the results of several studies on the representation of masculine generics in German into a theoretical framework. Although the results are consistent in showing the male bias of masculine generics, they are based on different experimental procedures and stimulus variations, and that makes the cognitive processes involved hard to compare. Assuming that reading results in the construction of situation models and that gender ‑related memory content is activated through a fast, undirected resonance process it is possible to determine a common cognitive basis. Possible causes of gender ‑related resonance are identified and their influence on situation models is discussed. The theoretical base allows the formulation of general statements on how gender ‑related information influences language processing. Furthermore, it has practical implications for how to implement a gender ‑fair language.

Keywords

CS

feministická lingvistika; gender; kognitivní psychologie; mluvnický rod; genderová lingvistika; gramatický rod; generické maskulinum; mentální reprezentace

EN

feminist linguistics; gender; cognitive psychology; gender (grammar); mental representation; grammatical gender; masculine generics

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 3-11
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lisa Irmen

• Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum, redakce, Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Ute Linner

• Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum, redakce, Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Barbora Schnelle

• Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum, redakce, Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic