‟Gender-Equal Speech” as Evidence for Language Contact: The Case of Sorbian
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LinCop.2021.004Keywords
Sorbian, gender linguistics, language contact, minority languages, newspaper languageAbstract
In a small corpus study with texts from Lower and Upper Sorbian newspapers, we examined the distribution of linguistic means of gender equity in Sorbian. By means of the close-reading method, several strategies of splitting (co-naming) and gender neutral constructions were considered. In general, explicit gender-linguistic structures such as co-naming are not very common in our texts. They are rather to be understood as rarely used emblematic linguistic symbols. The generic masculine, instead, is widespread in the texts. Lexically, the linguistic means of gender-equity are easily recognisable as adoptions from German.
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