Language, Cognition and Gender

• Main Author: Sabine Sczesny (auth)
• Other Authors: Alan Garnham (auth), Jane Oakhill (auth), Lisa von Stockhausen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Gender stereotype; Gender-fair language; Grammatical Gender; Language; gender; Cognition; Gender discrimination
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Gender inequality remains an issue of high relevance, and controversy, in society. Previous research shows that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Gender-related information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical category of g...