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Publication details [#13263]

Georgalidou, Marianthi and Sophia Lampropoulou. 2016. Grammatical Gender and Language Sexism in the Greek Public Administration Document (Γραμματικό γένος και γλωσσικός σεξισμός στα έγγραφα της ελληνικής δημόσιας διοίκησης). Glossologia 24 : 23–44. 22 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

Greek

Keywords

grammatical gender | sexism | society

Place, Publisher

The Linguistic Society of Athens

Abstract

This article deals with the constant employment of the masculine grammatical gender in Greek official documents. The masculine grammatical gender is widely used in these documents regardless of the fact that the readership and the people addressed are both women and men. It is supported that this is an expression of sexism portraying social male dominance.