34.1532, Confs: Challenging the Binary: Non-binary, genderqueer, and gender-neutral language

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Subject: 34.1532, Confs: Challenging the Binary: Non-binary, genderqueer, and gender-neutral language

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Date: 17-May-2023
From: Riitta Valijarvi [r.valijarvi at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Challenging the Binary: Non-binary, genderqueer, and gender-neutral language

Challenging the Binary: Non-binary, genderqueer, and gender-neutral
language

Date: 14-Jun-2023 - 15-Jun-2023
Location: London and online, United Kingdom
Contact: Riitta Valijarvi
Contact Email: r.valijarvi at ucl.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/events/2023/jun/chall
enging-binary-non-binary-genderqueer-and-gender-neutral-language

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

Growing recognition and understanding of gender-non-conforming,
non-binary, queer, and other gender identities have led to shifts in
language use and structures. One of the most obvious examples is the
increased popularity of declaring one’s gender using gender-neutral
and neo-pronouns in languages that traditionally lack such forms of
expression, e.g. the English they/them/their and ze/zer/zeir.
Expressing non-binary identities in languages with grammatical gender
can be challenging and has led to the emergence of new noun and
adjective forms, such as the gender-neutral Spanish chique/chiques
‘child/children’ from the older binary forms chico/chicos ‘boy/boys’
and chica/chicas ‘girl/girls’. Similarly, in some languages (e.g.
Hebrew, Arabic, Welsh, and French), even verb forms or prepositions
can be gendered, which means that the introduction of new
gender-neutral forms is starting to change the verbal structures of
the languages in question. Likewise, growing numbers of languages are
introducing innovative gender-neutral orthographic symbols; for
example, in Spanish the letter x has come to be used as an inclusive
replacement for masculine and feminine noun and adjective endings in
writing. Conversely, speakers of languages without grammatical gender,
such as Finnish, have seen other linguistic developments in response
to gender diversity, such as the use of English pronouns,
gender-neutral names, and new vocabulary to describe the range of
gender identities. Another aspect of these societal changes is the
spread of new practical ways to enable and support the expression of
gender identities in the language classroom (for both teachers and
students).

The purpose of this two-day conference is to explore non-binary,
gender-inclusive, and gender-non-conforming language
cross-linguistically. We welcome contributions on all languages, but
are especially interested in minority, endangered, and Indigenous
languages.

Program:

A draft programme is now available on the conference website where you
will also find information about registration: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/h
ebrew-jewish/events/2023/jun/challenging-binary-non-binary-genderqueer
-and-gender-neutral-language

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