TY - JOUR
T1 - Making Spanish gender fair
T2 - a review of anti-sexist language reform attempts from a language planning perspective
AU - Lomotey, Benedicta Adokarley
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/10/2
Y1 - 2018/10/2
N2 - More than four decades after the commencement of feminist linguistic activities, the author critically analyses the bottlenecks in the implementation of the European Spanish non-sexist language policies. Through the lenses of language planning, this study demonstrates that these obstacles are, firstly, the difficulty faced by feminist language planning in pervading the different domains and secondly, the limitations posed by language practices, beliefs and management. Other principal factors include inadequate attention to the role of local contexts in the implementation of gender-fair language. Using a survey, the author finally provides current data on speakers’ acceptance or rejection of non-sexist language alternatives. It also provides qualitative data on participants’ reaction to anti-sexist language reform attempts and discusses how these factors can be taken into consideration in feminist language planning.
AB - More than four decades after the commencement of feminist linguistic activities, the author critically analyses the bottlenecks in the implementation of the European Spanish non-sexist language policies. Through the lenses of language planning, this study demonstrates that these obstacles are, firstly, the difficulty faced by feminist language planning in pervading the different domains and secondly, the limitations posed by language practices, beliefs and management. Other principal factors include inadequate attention to the role of local contexts in the implementation of gender-fair language. Using a survey, the author finally provides current data on speakers’ acceptance or rejection of non-sexist language alternatives. It also provides qualitative data on participants’ reaction to anti-sexist language reform attempts and discusses how these factors can be taken into consideration in feminist language planning.
KW - Feminist language planning
KW - gender-fair language
KW - linguistic sexism
KW - sexist language reform
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85034227481&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14664208.2017.1403217
DO - 10.1080/14664208.2017.1403217
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034227481
SN - 1466-4208
VL - 19
SP - 383
EP - 400
JO - Current Issues in Language Planning
JF - Current Issues in Language Planning
IS - 4
ER -