Gender language in German: Maria Pober
Agender, Gender language in German, Trigender
Endless gender identities?
Binary-heteromasculine gender language German in the focus of everyone's verbalization
German learners from level B2 are available as guest auditors against advance notice welcome.
Gender language in German: summer semester 2022, summer semester, University of Vienna
Gender and sexuality were and still are commonly perceived as female and male – heterobinary. The legal recognition of those born intersex or intersex was an important step, has not yet reached everyone socially, which is also reflected in the standard language and its standardization. Terms such as diverse for intersex and other neologisms such as gender or genderfluid from the area of sexuality and gender identity were only included sporadically and in isolated cases in the current Duden edition. This purely additive addition of genderisms does very little to change the predominance of heteromasculine gender, since the lexicological integration within the semantic relations is missing.
The pre-feminist and heterobinary structuring of the vocabulary was not really touched upon, Because this would require a qualitative integration of sexuality and gender as an actual umbrella term for all people:inside with the sub-terms sexuality, Gender identity and sexual orientations are necessary - with heterosexual as one of them and not as sexuality per se. This equation of heteromasculine sexuality with that of general human sexuality continues. A shift or a shift within the gender-specific hierarchies of sexuality has not yet taken place. But it is the prerequisite for a reconceptualization and reorientation of gender, Gender and identity.
The following goals of this introductory seminar arise from this field of tension between all movements against heteromasculine dominance in language: The gender-critical analysis and deconstruction of the heteromasculine general human within all genders/sexualities or. Gender identities at a conceptual level (The category, hierarchies incl. heteromasculine hegemony in language as animated : inanimate, human : animal, masculine : female) and, more specifically, the analysis of the generic masculine and pre-feminist personal references, including meaning categories in the word motivation, linguistic registers and pluricentrism.
More Information about the introductory seminar can be found on the University of Vienna website.
