ÉCRITURE INCLUSIVE OU SURCHARGE COGNITIVE
INCLUSIVE WRITING OR COGNITIVE OVERLOAD

Summary/Abstract: Questions relating to feminization in linguistics are increasingly topical in relation to the invisibilisation of women, the disproportion between male and female representations, LGBT+ media promotion and the "sudden need" to promote so-called inclusive writing. These concerns, which originated in the 18th century, are supported by the recommendations of the High Council for Equality (2015) and have an impact on the structural functioning of the French language. Such an avenue, which does not take into account the social specificities and the contexts of linguistic dissemination in the Francophonie, poses the problem of the dynamism of the French language, of its need to promote equity between male and female representations. This aspiration leads objectively to lexical creativity, the questioning of syntactic and morphological rules but also to a disruption of the grammatical norm.

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