Translating non-binary coming-out reports

Autor(en)

Manuel Lardelli, Dagmar Gromann

Abstrakt

With the increased visibility of non-binary people, more and more strategies have been proposed for gender-fair language in languages that have grammatical gender, such as German. Gender-fair is used as an umbrella term for gender-inclusive, the explicit inclusion of all genders beyond the binary, and gender-neutral strategies, which omit any gender-specific references in language. An in-depth overview of these strategies has not yet been provided and very few studies analyse their use. This article proposes an in-depth introduction to gender-fair language strategies in German and Italian and their use in news articles. To this end, we compiled a corpus of news articles on the coming out of Demi Lovato as non-binary in both languages, which were all based on and translated from Lovato’s original Twitter post in English. To investigate translation strategies for gender-fair language, we analyse which gender-fair language strategy was applied to translate the tweet. Furthermore, the use and frequency of gender-fair pronouns, nouns, and adjectives were investigated in each article. Results show that misgendering is still very common, especially in Italian. A dominant strategy was not found in German or in Italian; a mix of gender-neutral and gender-inclusive forms was used instead.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Translationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Journal

Journal of Specialised Translation

Seiten

213-240

Anzahl der Seiten

28

ISSN

1740-357X

Publikationsdatum

07-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602051 Translationswissenschaft, 602007 Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, 504014 Gender Studies

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/5952fb79-f105-4b02-b763-4719ad6fe115