Genderově neutrální jména: současný stav a perspektivy

• Authors: Jana Valdrová

Title variants

EN

Gender neutral proper names: current situation and perspectives

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Personal proper names are part of a community’s language inventory. To a large extent, they verbalise gender stereotypes, expectations and norms, power relations, political circumstances, and how minorities are treated. In my paper I analyse the current socioonomastic representation of gender-neutral names in the context of naming practices in the Czech Republic. More specifi cally, I examine what factors might explain the decreased use of these names, which, paradoxically, differ from other names in that they have an extended functionality. From a linguistic and legal perspective I inquire into how Czech naming practices stigmatise the sexual otherness of non-binary people and trans people in Czech society. In the conclusion I set out the conditions that must be met for gender-neutral names to be freely available to the entire population.

Keywords

EN

onomastics; genderonomastics; proper name; gender-neutral name; unisex name; genderonym; Czech language; trans people

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 21-39
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jana Valdrová

• Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i. / Institute of Sociology CAS, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic