35.1590, FYI: Call for contributions: Linguistic intersections of language and gender
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Subject: 35.1590, FYI: Call for contributions: Linguistic intersections of language and gender
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Date: 28-May-2024
From: Dominic Schmitz [dominic.schmitz at uni-duesseldorf.de]
Subject: Call for contributions: Linguistic intersections of language and gender
Edited volume: Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of
gender bias and gender fairness
Editors: Dominic Schmitz, Simon David Stein & Viktoria Schneider
“Stop teaching kids pronouns and start teaching them grammar!” – The
current backlash against efforts to make language more
gender-inclusive gives rise to strong, sometimes absurd, demands. But
what exactly is gender and how is language gender-(non)inclusive?
>From a grammatical perspective, the concept of grammatical gender
constitutes noun classes which are reflected in the behavior of
associated words (Hockett 1958), dividing the nominal entries of a
language into two or more distinct classes (Siemund 2008). Nouns and
their gender classes trigger the appearance of certain formal
exponents in their syntactic surroundings (e.g., in articles,
adjectives, pronouns; Corbett 1991).
>From a social science perspective, the concept of social gender
constitutes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects
of a given gender identity (Haig 2004). In this regard, gender may
include social structures, i.e., gender roles and gender expression
(Lindqvist, Sendén & Renström 2021; Bates, Chin & Becker 2022). Many
cultures, especially those dominating the global north's cultural
interactions, have traditionally used a gender binary, and people are
considered to fall into one of two categories (cf. Maddux & Winstead
2019). Those who find themselves outside the binary defy such
traditional systems and are often subject to aggression due to their
gender (e.g., Richards et al. 2016).
Most linguists will agree that, in one way or another, grammatical
gender is not independent of social gender. The assignment of, e.g., a
noun to a pertinent grammatical gender class may be determined by a
variety of notional distinctions. One such distinction frequently
found in gender systems is male vs. female, that is, the real-world
distinction of binary gender identity (cf. Corbett 1991). While the
assignment of gender classes may overwhelmingly depend on such
notional information in some languages, e.g., notional gender
languages like English, there are gender systems that overwhelmingly
make use of morphological and phonological information, e.g.,
grammatical gender languages like German and Spanish, and other gender
systems that either make use of a mixture of notional and formal
information or are without a grammatical gender system, e.g., Georgian
(Corbett 2007). Analogously, the resolution of gender, that is the
agreement of another element with a pertinent noun, may rely on either
semantic or syntactic criteria. Semantic gender resolution involves
reference to the meaning of the pertinent noun, potentially ignoring
its grammatical gender in favor of social gender. Syntactic gender
resolution, on the other hand, draws on the grammatical gender of the
pertinent noun, potentially ignoring its semantics and, with that,
social gender (Corbett 2007).
It is this interplay of grammatical gender and social gender that
sparks linguists' interest, leading to an ever-growing body of related
research. The findings of such research are cause for language users
to reflect and change their language use, and even to invent novel
linguistic forms. Such change and invention, then, is the trigger for
opinionated utterances as the one quoted at the beginning of this
call. We aim to provide a collection of cutting-edge linguistic
research on gender bias and gender fairness from a variety of
linguistic areas which presents novel findings in languages with
notional gender, grammatical gender, and no gender system.
There are no publication costs for authors. All contributions will be
subject to double-blind review. To contribute to this volume, please
submit an abstract via email.
Submission of abstracts: 18 June 2024
Submission of full paper: 28 July 2024
Find the full call for contributions at: https://t.ly/4oNJJ
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
French (fra)
Georgian (kat)
German (deu)
Spanish (spa)
Language Family(ies): Finno-Ugric
Indo-European
Semitic
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