The use of gender-fair language in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: a contrastive, corpus-based study
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In Link (2024), there was a substantial increase in gender-fair forms in all three countries from 2017 onward, with stagnation for the conservative Swiss newspaper and a decrease for both German newspapers from 2021 on.
“Moreover, there was a substantial increase in gender-fair forms in all three countries from 2017 onward, and a stagnation of this trend for the conservative Swiss newspaper and a decrease for both German newspapers from 2021 on.”
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- Authors
- Link, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Urbino (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Link, Sabrina
- ORCID
- Link, Sabrina
- Venue
- Lingua
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2024-09
- Volume
- 308
- Pages
- 103787
- ISSN
- 0024-3841 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4400940321
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 9
- FWCI
- 12.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Lingua (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies in Language
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistic research and analysis
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
- Keywords
- gender-inclusive language, Germanic languages, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, newspaper language, journalistic language, political orientation of newspapers
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