Danish. Equal before the law – unequal in language

Gomard, Kirsten; Kunoe, Mette

doi:10.1075/impact.11.07gom

In:Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 11] 2003
► pp. 59–85

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Danish. Equal before the law – unequal in language

Kirsten Gomard | University of Aarhus, Denmark

Mette Kunoe | University of Aarhus, Denmark

Published online: 10 April 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.11.07gom

1.Introduction

2.Structural properties of Danish

2.1Grammatical gender and agreement

2.2Pronouns

2.3The morphology of human nouns

2.3.1Derivation

2.3.2Compounding

3.The semantics of human nouns

3.1‘Woman’ and ‘man’

3.2Occupational titles

3.3Address forms

3.4Terms of abuse and slang words

3.5Idiomatic expressions

4.Proverbs

5.Language politics

5.1Alternatives to male-biased personal nouns

5.2Affirmative action?

5.3Pronominal splitting and neutralization

5.4Family names

5.5The press

6.Conclusion

Notes

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