Attitudes Toward Gender-Neutral Spanish: Acceptability and Adoptability

Bonnin, Juan Eduardo; Coronel, Alejandro

doi:10.3389/fsoc.2021.629616

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“…In the case of the first-person plural, the picture turns so that Level 100 records the highest followed by Level 400 before postgraduates. The study can arguably conclude here that people tend to affiliate with others when they are young and lose the group affiliation as they grow as posited by Hekanaho (2022), Bonnin and Coronel (2021) and Senden et al (2021). Despite recording the least among all groups in terms of first-person singular pronoun use, the Level 100's interestingly recorded as much as Postgraduates in the use of the first-person singular form "mine".…”

Section: Variation In the Use Of First-person Pronounsmentioning

confidence: 53%

“…The need to do away with ambiguities in the etymological angles that the definition of pronouns considers, led Leech and Svartvik (1975) to argue that a pronoun does not just replace a noun, but takes the place of a noun which has occurred earlier. This is also mentioned by Bonnin and Coronel (2021) in their write-up on people's attitudes towards gender-neutral Spanish when they weighed the issue of acceptability and ultimate adoptability. Harianja (2019) also argued that pronouns do not just replace nouns, but also take the functional place of nouns.…”

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Corpus Study of The Choice of Personal Pronouns in Social Media Chats Among Tertiary Students

Osafo-Adjei

Tetteh

Tieku³

2022

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Purpose: Sociolinguistics variables such as age, gender and social class, among others, are said to bring the difference in the ways humans communicate. In this essence, this study investigated how age brings out the difference in the use of pronouns between three generational groups Design/Methodology/Approach: Group WhatsApp chats were collected from three generational groups of students based on their willingness to give it out for analysis. These three generational groups are postgraduate students and undergraduates (Level 100, Level 400). These groups were randomly collected from over four hundred (400 students of the University of Ghana and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana based on convenience. A quantitative research design was adopted for this study with the help of a corpus tool (AntConc) to analyse the huge data gathered based on percentages. Findings: This study found out that postgraduates and undergraduates (Level 100) use the first-person singular pronoun but postgraduates, especially those who represent the older generation tend to use the first-person pronoun more often while the second undergraduate group members (Level 400) use the third person pronouns. The study, per the findings, concludes that people tend to affiliate with others when they are young and lose group affiliation as they grow. Research Limitation: The study was limited to WhatsApp group chats of university students within the undergraduate and postgraduate academic levels who permitted their chats to be used. This resulted in a narrow scope for the groups used. Practical implication: The study reveals the preference or choice of pronoun usage among people based on their ages and the groups they affiliate more with. People may thus become more conscious of the choice they make of pronouns for usage as they become older or affiliate with older people. Social Implications: the study re-examines existing literature on the use of adverbs, especially personal pronouns. Since many studies have been done on the use of adverbs, this adds a new strand of knowledge to existing ones on the subject. Originality/Value: It provided empirical data on the demographic, precisely age characteristics of the subjects used for the research that affects their choice of personal pronouns among themselves and others.

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Section: Variation In the Use Of First-person Pronounsmentioning

confidence: 53%

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confidence: 94%

Corpus Study of The Choice of Personal Pronouns in Social Media Chats Among Tertiary Students

Osafo-Adjei

Tetteh

Tieku³

2022

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“…33-34). 10 Como afirma Bonnin (2021), "saying 'chiques' takes more cognitive effort, because it is the marked, non-standard option. However, using it creates an interpersonal relationship, where the speakers recognize each other as people who share a non-binary conception of gender, even when they are not willing to use it extensively in their speech" (p. 9).…”

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Lenguaje inclusivo, usos del morfema –e y posicionamientos subjetivos

Negroni

Hall²

2022

LyL

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De las propuestas actuales para evitar el sexismo y el binarismo en el lenguaje, nos centramos en el morfema –e (chiques). En el marco del Enfoque dialógico de la argumentación y la polifonía y retomando la línea de investigación expuesta en trabajos anteriores, analizamos las enunciaciones con dicho morfema como respuestas dialógicas a marcos de discurso relativos a la norma (académica y social) y, consecuentemente, como plasmación de distintos posicionamientos enunciativos frente a ellos. En tanto huellas diversas de heterogeneidad, las ocurrencias del morfema -e confirman el valor simbólico y social del lenguaje y dan cuenta de la toma de partido en el terreno polémico acerca del uso del lenguaje inclusivo. El análisis se centra en intervenciones orales y escritas pertenecientes a distintos géneros discursivos (periodísticos, políticos, publicitarios, jurídicos y académicos) y producidas en los últimos años en la Argentina.

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“…This article offers the option of the gender markers “–e,” “–x,” and the use of genderless nouns. Corpus studies have tracked the history of diverse attempts at a more inclusive Spanish language (Bonnin & Coronel, 2021; Kalinowski, 2020; Linares, 2019; Slemp, 2020), with recent findings supporting the fact that the most common gender‐inclusive markers currently used by Spanish speakers are “–e,” or “–x.” Data from an unpublished study I conducted in 2022 support Knisely's options but also shed light onto the controversies that currently surround gender‐neutral and gender‐inclusive language in Spanish. These studies conclude that the use of different gender markers is still debated among Spanish speakers, even the ones who have already accepted that gender neutrality should be accepted.…”

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The pursuit of a gender‐just language classroom

Lesniak

2023

The Modern Language Journal

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Attitudes Toward Gender-Neutral Spanish: Acceptability and Adoptability

Cited by 20 publications

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Corpus Study of The Choice of Personal Pronouns in Social Media Chats Among Tertiary Students

Corpus Study of The Choice of Personal Pronouns in Social Media Chats Among Tertiary Students

Lenguaje inclusivo, usos del morfema –e y posicionamientos subjetivos

The pursuit of a gender‐just language classroom

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