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Féminisme ou machisme langagier ? Encore une fois sur les enjeux de la féminisation de la langue
Feminism or language machismo? An approach of language feminisation

Author(s): Constantin-Ioan Mladin
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: language feminization; language machismo; terminological feminisation

Summary/Abstract: As a sequence to two other works dealing with the feminization of the language in the francophone area (2007, 2008), the author : (1) brings along a few conceptual and metalinguistic additions (adelphité, feméillité, féminisme anti-féminin / pro-masculin, féminisme, féminitarisme, sororité) and (2) discusses the lax perspective (non-conflictual, self ironic) from which the battle between the two sexes (from the social point of view) and the desexualization of the language is approached nowadays.

  • Issue Year: 9/2008
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 73-77
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: French