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Publication details [#55297]

Abbou, Julie. 2011. Double gender marking in French: a linguistic practice of antisexism. Current Issues in Language Planning 12 (1) : 55–75.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | language planning | markedness | political language | sexism

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

It is argued that linguistic antisexism implicates double gender marking practices which operate to elude the gender dichotomy. Drawing on a French written corpus, this study explores this gender-related practice as the deployment of language as a political tool.