Interpretaciones del discurso actual en España: la dinámica del género gramatical de los nombres de persona
Interpretations of the Contemporary Discourse in Spain: the Dynamics of the Grammatical Gender in Personal Names

Summary/Abstract: The interaction between gender and language is constantly subjected to changes caused by successive transformations and innovations that occur in our society. Various social and political contexts will inevitably lead to new ways of communicating and understanding language. According to this dynamic, the same discourse might be interpreted in different ways according to the point of view of the person analyzing it and their inclusion within a certain social group. In the context of the highly debatable use of feminine gendered nouns in professional settings, it is particularly interesting to investigate how different categories of native Spanish speakers view and evaluate real, authentic samples of gendered discourse. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the way in which these speakers formulate their personal opinions regarding the correct formal and informal use of gendered language, their preferred manner of creating the feminine of occupational nouns from a morphological point of view, and the extent to which they accept the use of generic masculine words.

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