Rodovo vyvážená slovenčina v súčasnej spoločnosti

• Authors: Lujza Urbancová

Title variants

EN

Gender balanced Slovak in contemporary society

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with the current social context in which the gender-balanced functions of the Slovak language are being created. The rules that exist for creating and using gender-based Slovak are at odds with contemporary society. This paper examines the mechanism of language changes including gender-balanced language and makes observations about how they are perceived within the communication community in particular. Language is approached as a construct that is a reflection of society and social processes, while at the same time language influences some of these processes in return. Language changes occur more slowly than social ones, or rather, these changes do not respond operatively to changes within society. An exception to this is the enrichment of vocabulary, but conceptual changes progress much more slowly. The fact that language is used to strengthen certain images of the world also plays a role in the process. Language ideology provides this process with new impulses.

Keywords

EN

gender-balanced Slovak; language ideologies; language changes; language community; inclusive communication

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: 41-61
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lujza Urbancová

• 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