LINGUISTIC TOLERANCE: FEMINATIVES AND INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE IN RUSSIAN
Keywords:
Feminatives, inclusive language, gender linguistics, language norm, gender discrimination, history of the Russian language, feminism, language policy, tolerance.Abstract
The article analyzes the phenomenon of feminatives and inclusive language in modern Russian. It examines the history of feminatives from Old Russian names of female professions to their development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and highlights the influence of socio-social factors such as emancipation and feminism on their evolution. Contemporary language changes are considered, including the spread of feminatives in speech and media, public debates around them, and the main arguments of critics and supporters. The study concludes that feminatives are an important means of linguistic representation of women and an expansion of the expressive potential of the Russian language as well as a necessary component of an inclusive approach to language norms.
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