When Voisins Can Be Women and When They Cannot – Masculine Generics in French (eBook)

An Experimental Study on the Influence of Stereotypicality and Role Noun Type on the Interpretation of Masculine Role Nouns

Clara Stumm (Autor)

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2025
269 Seiten
J.B. Metzler (Verlag)
978-3-662-71663-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines whether masculine plural role nouns in French trigger a male-specific interpretation. By closely replicating the French sample of an experiment run by Gygax et al. in 2008, Experiment 1 suggests that stereotypically male, neutral and female masculine role nouns tend to be associated with men. Experiment 2 focuses on the role noun type of stereotypically neutral role nouns (occupational nouns vs. non-occupational nouns) and indicates that the masculine role nouns were interpreted as referring to both men and women. While the findings of Experiment 1 align with an extensive body of previous empirical research, the results of Experiment 2 challenge most previous findings. In other words, the interpretation of masculine role nouns seems to be influenced by multiple factors and appears to be a complex phenomenon. In this vein, the approach sketched in this book is a step towards understanding the interpretation of masculine role nouns as a multifactorial phenomenon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.7.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Linguistik in Empirie und Theorie/Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 269 p. 15 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: French • gender-fair language • generic masculine • Language & Cognition • Language and gender • male bias • male-specific interpretation • masculine generics • masculine role nouns • Psycholinguistics • Replication Research • sentence evaluation
• ISBN-10: 3-662-71663-1 / 3662716631
• ISBN-13: 978-3-662-71663-2 / 9783662716632