This article focuses upon the evolution of an ideologically dominated linguistic feminism to the application of gender-sensitive language in contemporary German. Three linguistic strategies – distinction, neutralization, graphostylistic disturbance – with corresponding linguistic forms will be examined in two German university guidelines, intending to reveal which ones are considered as pragmatically acceptable in communicative practice.
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