Γραμματικό γένος, κοινωνικό φύλο και παπάκια

Autor(en)

Vinicio Ntouvlis

Abstrakt

This study examines the use of the @ symbol in Greek social media discourse as a gender-inclusive writing practice. The main aims are to provide a first description of @’s use in Greek and analyze emergent patterns of its enregisterment as a socially indexical practice. Adopting a digital ethnographic approach, the study focuses on a feminist Facebook page where users anonymously share stories, often employing @ in their writing. The analysis suggests that @ mostly functions as a writing element that replaces gendered suffixes in written Greek forms, thereby eliminating grammatical gender representation and facilitating the use of non-sexist language. Within the community examined, using @ can index and enact a broadly conceived ‘feminist’ identity, which may function for social typification. Overall, the study illustrates how ongoing debates around gender-inclusive language may give rise to socially indexical paralinguistic conventions that can circumvent linguistic features like grammatical gender.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Sprachwissenschaft

Band

42

Seiten

497-505

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602035 Neogräzistik, 602048 Soziolinguistik

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/5df45bc2-e838-4c38-b9a9-6101b6c88c48