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ÜbersichtsarbeitenDiewald, G. (2018). Zur Diskussion: Geschlechtergerechte Sprache als Thema der germanistischen Linguistik – exemplarisch exerziert am Streit um das sogenannte generische Maskulinum. Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik, 46, 283–299.
Ferstl, E. (2022). Psycho- und neurolinguistische Forschung zu maskulinen Personenbezeichnungen. In S. Beaufaÿs, J. Herrmann, & B. Kortendiek (Eds.), Geschlechterinklusive Sprache an Hochschulen fördern: Handreichung, Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW (Vol. 36, pp. 34–38). Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW.
McConnell-Ginet, S. (2015). Gender and its relation to sex: The myth of ‘natural’ gender. In G. G. Corbett (Ed.), The Expression of Gender (pp. 3–38). De Gruyter Mouton.
Nübling, D. (2018). Und ob das Genus mit dem Sexus. Genus verweist nicht nur auf Geschlecht, sondern auf die Geschlechterordnung. Sprachreport, 34, 44–50.
Generische Maskulina
Gabriel, U., Gygax, P., Sarrasin, O., Garnham, A., & Oakhill, J. (2008). Au pairs are rarely male: Norms on the gender perception of role names across English, French, and German. Behavior Research Methods, 40(1), 206–212. https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.40.1.206
Glim, S., Körner, A., Härtl, H., & Rummer, R. (2023). Early ERP indices of gender-biased processing elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the feminine–masculine pair form. Brain and Language, 242, 105290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105290
Glim, S., Körner, A., & Rummer, R. (2024). Generic masculine role nouns interfere with the neural processing of female referents: Evidence from the P600. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2387230
Gygax, P., Gabriel, U., Sarrasin, O., Oakhill, J., & Garnham, A. (2008). Generically intended, but specifically interpreted: When beauticians, musicians, and mechanics are all men. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(3), 464–485. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960701702035
Tibblin, J., Weijer, J. van de, Granfeldt, J., & Gygax, P. (2023). There are more women in joggeur·euses than in joggeurs: On the effects of gender-fair forms on perceived gender ratios in French role nouns. Journal of French Language Studies, 33(1), 28–51. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269522000217
Schmitz, D. (2024). Instances of bias: The gendered semantics of generic masculines in German revealed by instance vectors. Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft, 43(2). https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2024-2010
Schmitz, D., Schneider, V., & Esser, J. (2023). No genericity in sight: An exploration of the semantics of masculine generics in German. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.5070/G6011192
Gendersternchen
Friedrich, M. C. G., Gajewski, S., Hagenberg, K., Wenz, C., & Heise, E. (2024). Does the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) as a special form of gender-fair language impair comprehensibility? Discourse Processes, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2024.2362027
Körner, A., Abraham, B., Rummer, R., & Strack, F. (2022). Gender representations elicited by the gender star form. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 41(5), 553–571. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X221080181
Körner, A., Glim, S., & Rummer, R. (2024). Examining the glottal stop as a mark of gender-inclusive language in German. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716424000018
Schunack, S., & Binanzer, A. (2022). Revisiting gender-fair language and stereotypes – A comparison of word pairs, capital I forms and the asterisk. Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft, 41(2), 309–337. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2022-2008
Zacharski, L., & Ferstl, E. C. (2023). Gendered Representations of Person Referents Activated by the Nonbinary Gender Star in German: A Word-Picture Matching Task. Discourse Processes, 60(4–5), 294–319. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2023.2199531
Ochs, S., & Rüdiger, J. O. (2025). Of stars and colons: A corpus-based analysis of gender-inclusive orthographies in German press texts. In D. Schmitz, S. D. Stein, & V. Schneider (Eds.), Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness (pp. 31–62). düsseldorf university press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111388694-003/html
Völkening, L. (2025). What if -*in is a new suffix? In D. Schmitz, S. D. Stein, & V. Schneider (Eds.), Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness (pp. 11–30). düsseldorf university press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111388694-002/html
1 Antwort
Lascotte, D. K. (2016). Singular they: An Empirical Study of Generic Pronoun Use. American Speech, 91(1), 62–80. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3509469
Redl, T., Szuba, A., de Swart, P., Frank, S. L., & de Hoop, H. (2022). Masculine generic pronouns as a gender cue in generic statements. Discourse Processes, 59(10), 828–845. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2022.2148071
Steriopolo, O., & Aussoleil, H. (2023). Individuals’ pronoun choice: A case study of transgender speakers in Berlin, Germany. The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns, 465–479. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003349891-38
Schmitz, D. (2025). Pronoun comprehension from a discriminative perspective: A proof of concept. In D. Schmitz, S. D. Stein, & V. Schneider (Eds.), Linguistic intersections of language and gender: Of gender bias and gender fairness (pp. 95–110). düsseldorf university press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111388694-006/html
SonstigesBailey, A. H., Williams, A., & Cimpian, A. (2022). Based on billions of words on the internet, people = men. Science Advances, 8(13), eabm2463. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm2463
Müller-Spitzer, C., & Lobin, H. (2022). Leben, lieben, leiden: Geschlechterstereotype in Wörterbüchern, Einfluss der Korpusgrundlage und Abbild der sprachlichen ‚Wirklichkeit‘. In Genus – Sexus – Gender (pp. 33–64). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110746396-002
Müller-Spitzer, C., & Ochs, S. (2023). Geschlechtergerechte Sprache auf den Webseiten deutscher, österreichischer, schweizerischer und Südtiroler Städte. Sprachreport, 39(2), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.14618/SR-2-2023_MUE
Müller-Spitzer, C., Ochs, S., Koplenig, A., Rüdiger, J. O., & Wolfer, S. (2024). Less than one percent of words would be affected by gender-inclusive language in German press texts. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03769-w
Szuba, A., Redl, T., & de Hoop, H. (2022). Are Second Person Masculine Generics Easier to Process for Men than for Women? Evidence from Polish. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10936-022-09859-7