Open AccessGender, Grammar and Discourse: the Case of German
Author(s) -
Ursula Doleschal,
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
voprosy psiholingvistiki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-6908
pISSN - 2077-5911
DOI - 10.30982/2077-5911-2021-49-3-74-85
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , german , grammar , linguistics , natural (archaeology) , rule based machine translation , sociology , history , psychology , literature , philosophy , art , medicine , archaeology , radiology
In this article, we try to show how the discourse about grammatical and natural gender has changed over time starting with grammars from the 16th and 17th century, where we find a neutral and symmetric presentation of the genders, through the 18th and 19th centuries, when this discourse radically changes, up to the end of the 20th century, where we again reach a neutral presentation which is less symmetrical, though.