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Das Thema genderinklusive Sprache ist mittlerweile nicht nur Gegenstand regelmäßiger Umfragen, Presseartikel oder Talksendungen, sondern auch von Volksinitiativen. In Baden-Württemberg beispielsweise veranstaltet Klaus Hekking, Initiator des Volksbegehrens Stoppt Gendern in Baden-Württemberg, eine Radtour gegen Gendern, um Unterschriften zu sammeln (die Initiative wurde allerdings vom Innenministerium gestoppt). Auch in Hamburg lief 2023 eine Volksinitiative namens „Schluss mit Gendersprache in Verwaltung und Bildung“, die vom „Verein Deutsche Sprache“ initiiert und von der Hamburger CDU unterstützt wurde. Die Initiative hat fast 17.000 Unterschriften gesammelt und überregionale mediale Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.
Less than one percent of words would be affected by gender-inclusive language in German press texts
(2024)
Research on gender and language is tightly knitted to social debates on gender equality and non-discriminatory language use. Psycholinguistic scholars have made significant contributions in this field. However, corpus-based studies that investigate these matters within the context of language use are still rare. In our study, we address the question of how much textual material would actually have to be changed if non-gender-inclusive texts were rewritten to be gender-inclusive. This quantitative measure is an important empirical insight, as a recurring argument against the use of gender-inclusive German is that it supposedly makes written texts too long and complicated. It is also argued that gender-inclusive language has negative effects on language learners. However, such effects are only likely if gender-inclusive texts are very different from those that are not gender-inclusive. In our corpus-linguistic study, we manually annotated German press texts to identify the parts that would have to be changed. Our results show that, on average, less than 1% of all tokens would be affected by gender-inclusive language. This small proportion calls into question whether gender-inclusive German presents a substantial barrier to understanding and learning the language, particularly when we take into account the potential complexities of interpreting masculine generics.
This paper focuses on language change based on shifting social norms, in particular with regard to the debate on language and gender. It is a recurring argument in this debate that language develops "naturally" and that "severe interventions" - such as gender-inclusive language is often claimed to be - in the allegedly "organic" language system are inappropriate and even "dangerous". Such interventions are, however, not unprecedented. Socially motivated processes of language change are neither unusual nor new. We focus in our contribution on one important political-social space in Germany, the German Bundestag. Taking other struggles about language and gender in the plenaries of the Bundestag as a starting point, our article illustrates that language and gender has been a recurring issue in the German Bundestag since the 1980s. We demonstrate how this is reflected in linguistic practices of the Bundestag, by the use of a) designations for gays and lesbians; b) pair forms such as Bürgerinnen und Bürger (female and male citizens); and c) female forms of addresses and personal nouns ('Präsidentin' in addition to 'Präsident'). Lastly, we will discuss implications of these earlier language battles for the currently very heated debate about gender-inclusive language, especially regarding new forms with gender symbols like the asterisk or the colon (Lehrer*innen, Lehrer:innen; male*female teachers) which are intended to encompass all gender identities.
In many countries of the world, perspectives on gender equality and racism have changed in recent decades. One result has been more attention being devoted to traces of androcentric and racist language in society. This also affects dictionaries. In lexicography there are discussions about whether or to what extent social asymmetries are inscribed in dictionaries and if this is still acceptable. The issue of the nature of description plays an important role in this discussion. If sexist usages are often found in language use, i.e. in the corpus data on which the dictionary is based, does the dictionary also have to show them? How is this, in turn, compatible with the normative power of dictionaries? Do dictionaries contribute to the perpetuation of gender stereotypes by showcasing them under the banner of descriptive principles? And what roles do lexicographers play in this process? The article deals with these questions on the basis of individual lexicographical examples and current discussions in the lexicographic and public community.
We introduce DeReKoGram, a novel frequency dataset containing lemma and part-of-speech (POS) information for 1-, 2-, and 3-grams from the German Reference Corpus. The dataset contains information based on a corpus of 43.2 billion tokens and is divided into 16 parts based on 16 corpus folds. We describe how the dataset was created and structured. By evaluating the distribution over the 16 folds, we show that it is possible to work with a subset of the folds in many use cases (e.g., to save computational resources). In a case study, we investigate the growth of vocabulary (as well as the number of hapax legomena) as an increasing number of folds are included in the analysis. We cross-combine this with the various cleaning stages of the dataset. We also give some guidance in the form of Python, R, and Stata markdown scripts on how to work with the resource.
Der Anlass dieser Untersuchung war zunächst anekdotische Evidenz: Eines der Kinder der Autor*innen macht 2022 Abitur und las in ihrer gesamten gymnasialen Laufbahn genau eine ›Ganzschrift‹ einer Autorin: Die Judenbuche von Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. Zweifellos ein lesenswerter Text, aber konnte es wirklich sein, dass man in Deutschland 2022 Abitur macht, sogar Deutsch-Leistungskurs gewählt hat und sonst kein Buch einer Autorin im Deutschunterricht liest? Auch in den Pflichtlektüren für das Deutschabitur ist im entsprechenden Bundesland bei den empfohlenen Texten kein Roman und kein Drama einer Verfasserin verzeichnet. Neugierig geworden, recherchierten wir nach einer Liste, welche Literatur für den Deutschunterricht an Gymnasien in Baden-Württemberg (wo die Anekdote sich ereignete) insgesamt empfohlen wurde, und fanden auf den Seiten des Kultusministeriums eine umfangreiche Liste, auf der 298 Werke verzeichnet sind. Eine Auswertung nach dem Geschlecht der Verfasser*innen ergab, dass von den Einträgen auf dieser Liste 31 Titel bzw. Autor*innen (von) Frauen sind, d.h. rund 10 %.
Dictionaries are often a reflection of their time; their respective (socio-)historical context influences how the meaning of certain lexical units is described. This also applies to descriptions of personal terms such as man or woman. Lexicographers have a special responsibility to comprehensively investigate current language use before describing it in the dictionary. Accordingly, contemporary academic dictionaries are usually corpus-based. However, it is important to acknowledge that language is always embedded in cultural contexts. Our case study investigates differences in the linguistic contexts of the use of man and woman, drawing from a range of language collections (in our case fiction books, popular magazines and newspapers). We explain how potential differences in corpus construction would therefore influence the “reality” depicted in the dictionary. In doing so, we address the far-reaching consequences that the choice of corpus-linguistic basis for an empirical dictionary has on semantic descriptions in dictionary entries.Furthermore, we situate the case study within the context of gender-linguistic issues and discuss how lexicographic teams can engage with how dictionaries might perpetuate traditional role concepts when describing language use.
Olaf Scholz gendert. Eine Analyse von Personenbezeichnungen in Weihnachts- und Neujahrsansprachen
(2022)
Schlagzeilen wie die in unserer Überschrift blieben im Januar 2022 aus. Dabei enthielt die erste Neujahrsansprache von Olaf Scholz kein einziges generisches Maskulinum, sondern Doppelformen (Mitbürgerinnen und Mitbürger, Expertinnen und Experten), geschlechtsabstrahierende Ausdrücke (Eltern, Familien, Geimpfte, Menschen) und Personalisierungen bzw. Umschreibungen wie uns allen, es haben sich 60 Millionen […] impfen lassen, oder ich möchte allen danken. Die Rede nutzt somit durchgängig verschiedene Formen geschlechtergerechter Sprache, wohl aber so unauffällige Formen, dass dies keine mediale Aufmerksamkeit auf sich gezogen hat. Nebenbei: Dies zeigt, dass es bei den hitzigen öffentlichen Diskussionen rund um das Thema nicht um alle Formen geschlechtergerechter Sprache geht, sondern eigentlich nur um bestimmte Formen, wie z.B. die Verwendung des Gendersterns. Wir stellen hier einige Beobachtungen basierend auf einem annotierten Korpus von Ansprachen vor, die Sie selbst anhand einer Online-App nachvollziehen können.