La féminisation des noms de métiers – prétexte pour une réflexion sociale et culturelle alimentée par des données de corpus dans le cadre des études de philologie
The Feminisation of Job Titles: A Pretext for Social and Cultural Reflection Based on Corpus Data

Summary/Abstract: In the theoretical part of this paper, we propose to draw up a double panorama clarifying, on the one hand, the main linguistic and social issues connected with the feminization of job titles in the French-Polish contrastive perspective, and on the other hand, the data-driven didactic approach favouring the development of lexical and general skills. Secondly, we examine the results of a project adopting this methodology in which the formation of the feminine forms of job titles was analysed by students through lexicographic sources and a text corpus. The results show that lexicographers are not always unanimous about feminine lexemes, and that the language usage reflected in text corpora based on contemporary language does not confirm the use of all the forms proposed by prestigious institutions and dictionaries. Another advantage of this approach lies in the development of students’ autonomy, their capacity for critical analysis and their heuristic skills, which are very important extralinguistic goals in university education.

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