This corpus-linguistic study investigates the extent of textual changes required to make non-gender-inclusive German press texts gender-inclusive. The results show that less than 1% of all tokens would be affected, challenging arguments that gender-inclusive language significantly impairs readability and learnability.
Publisher
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Published On
Oct 04, 2024
Authors
Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Samira Ochs, Alexander Koplenig, Jan Oliver Rüdiger, Sascha Wolfer
Tags
gender-inclusive language
German press
corpus linguistics
readability
textual changes
language policy
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