Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research, 2022 (roč. 23), číslo 2
Jazyk, pohlaví a gender


Editorial

Jazyk, gender a společenské procesy

Jana Valdrová, Vít Kolek

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 3-19 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.021  

Stati

Genderově neutrální jména: současný stav a perspektivy

Jana Valdrová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 21-39 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.014  

Personal proper names are part of a community’s language inventory. To a large extent, they verbalise gender stereotypes, expectations and norms, power relations,  political circumstances, and how minorities are treated. In my paper I analyse the current socio-onomastic representation of gender-neutral names in the context of naming practices in the Czech Republic. More specifically, I examine what factors might explain the decreased use of these names, which, paradoxically, differ from other names in that they have an extended functionality. From a linguistic and legal perspective I inquire into how Czech naming practices stigmatise the...

Rodovo vyvážená slovenčina v súčasnej spoločnosti

Lujza Urbancová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 41-61 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.018  

This paper deals with the current social context in which the gender-balanced functions of the Slovak language are being created. The rules that exist for creating and using gender-based Slovak are at odds with contemporary society. This paper examines the mechanism of language changes including gender-balanced language and makes observations about how they are perceived within the communication community in particular. Language is approached as a construct that is a reflection of society and social processes, while at the same time language influences some of these processes in return. Language changes occur more slowly than social ones, or rather,...

Způsoby označování osob z hlediska ne/binarity genderu: kvantitativní sonda do titulních stran vybraných českých periodik

Vít Kolek

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 62-81 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.013  

Criticising the use of the generic masculine, feminist and gender linguists have proposed different alternatives. In the Czech context, the following three types of alternatives can be distinguished: (1) feminisation, (2) neutralisation and paraphrases, and (3) making non-binary persons linguistically more visible. Empirical studies on the usage frequency of these alternatives, however, are lacking. This paper addresses this issue by analysing agentive nouns and the feminisation of surnames in selected Czech newspapers. The results show that in references to individual women almost exclusive use is made of feminine expressions. Mixed-gender groups...

Women, Who Climb - A Corpus Linguistic Tour Description with Potential Danger Zones

Claudia Posch

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 82-113 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.022  

This paper explores novel ways in which Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies (DHA – the discourse-historical approach), and Feminist Linguistics can be fruitfully combined and thus contribute to a new awareness and knowledge concerning language and gender in discourse. For the paper a large heritage corpus of texts on mountaineering (Alpenwort – Corpus of the Austrian Alpine Club Journal) is explored, which constitutes a type of discourse that has yet rarely been studied in the abovementioned fields. The corpus was used to analyse gendered nomination with the following questions in mind: What frequently occurring patterns...

Using a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies Approach to Analyse Gender: A Case Study of German Radiology Reports

Karoline Irschara

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 114-139 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.015  

This paper explores how a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) approach can be utilised to investigate representations of gender as well as potential gender bias in radiology reporting, which constitutes a form of professional, medical discourse. The database collected for this purpose consists of three specialised German sub-corpora (332,901 cranial, thoracic, and whole-body computed tomographies, with more than 61 million tokens), which were extracted from a larger medical corpus called MedCorpInn that was built as part of an interdisciplinary project conducted jointly by the University of Innsbruck and Innsbruck Medical University. As...

Corpus-Linguistic Analysis of Speech Communities on Anti-Gender Discourse in Slovene

Damjan Popič, Vojko Gorjanc

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 140-166 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2022.020  

This paper deals with a corpus-linguistic analysis of different text/media types in Slovene with the aim of finding out whether or not any of the communication channels covered by the corpora employed in our analysis serve as a means of unification against the concept of gender, thereby serving as a catalyst for creating and maintaining (new) speech communities. We aim to determine this by extracting the two most commonly misused concepts (terms) in Slovene, i.e. gender theory and gender ideology, and analysing their use in three different corpora of contemporary Slovene: the reference corpus Gigafida 2.0, the corpus of user-generated...

Recenze

Gender-Inclusive Language and Anti-Discriminatory Language Policy

Martin Stegu

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 167-174  

Book review of Scheller-Boltz, D. / Reuther, T. (eds). 2019. Language Policies in the Light of Antidiscrimination and Political Correctness. Special Issue. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 84.

Zprávy

Intersectional and Multispecies Approaches to Climate Action

Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer, Josephine Taylor

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 175-179  

Information about the special issue of the journal: ‘Climate Action: Transforming Infrastructure, Cultivating Attentiveness, Practicing Solidarity’ – a special issue of the journal Sociální studia 19 (1 /2022)

Transnational Feminist Solidarity with Ukraine for Sustainable, Inclusive and Fair Post-War Reconstruction

Olga Gheorghiev

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2022, 23 (2): 179-183