SIMBOLNO NASILJE SPOLNEGA ZAZNAMOVANJA V JEZIKU IN PRAKSE UPORA V VISOKOŠOLSKEM PROSTORU
SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE OF GENDERING THROUGH LANGUAGE AND PRACTICES OF RESISTANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses androcentrism and cisnormativity in language with a focus on the meaning of such linguistic practices in higher education, which is characterised by symbolic power constituted by the authorisation of higher education for the production of expert discourse. Through the dominant use of established linguistic practices, the formalisation of cisnormative and androcentric linguistic code is reproduced along with social asymmetrical gendered power relations. The article includes research findings on the perception of sexism in higher education with a focus on findings on sexism in language. It concludes with an analysis of linguistic practices of resistance aiming for the destabilisation of cisnormativity and androcentrism in language which could be effectively implemented by the use of underscore.

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