Inclusive language remains a hot topic. Despite decades of empirical evidence and revisions of formal language use, many inclusive adaptations of English and German continue to be ignored or contested. But how to convince speakers of the importance of inclusive language? _Rewriting Language _provides one possible answer: by engaging readers with the issue, literary texts can help to raise awareness and thereby promote wider linguistic change. Christiane Luck analyses five iconic texts from a literary, linguistic and sociological perspective. She shows how Ursula K. Le Guin’s _The Left Hand of Darkness_ and Verena Stefan’s _Häutungen_ highlight the issues inherent in the linguistic status quo; Marge Piercy’s _Woman on the Edge of Time_ and June Arnold’s _The Cook and the Carpenter_ explore the possibilities and challenges of linguistic neutrality; and Gerd Brantenberg’s _Egalias døtre_ reverses linguistic norms to illustrate the link between language and imagination. A focus group study provides empirical evidence for the effectiveness of the literary approaches and shows how literary texts can sensitise readers to the impact of biased language. Particularly in the context of education, Luck concludes, literary texts can be a valuable tool to promote inclusive language use. PRAISE FOR RE_WRITING LANGUAGE_ 'An important contribution to feminist linguistics and sets forth a model that other researchers can build on, even as she reminds us that sexist value systems are too deeply engrained to be easily displaced by more egalitarian linguistic systems.'___Gender and Language _
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9781787356702
Publisert
2020
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UCL Press (NBN)
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Engelsk
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