The “middle dot,” or the French full stop feud
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2020.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : The controversy over inclusive writing revolves around the often-hesitant use of the “middle dot,” a punctuation mark which allows writers to avoid gender bias. In order to “put an end to the invisibility” of the female in the French language, should we call into question, at the cost of an even more difficult learning process, the current system of representation of biographical genres by grammatical genres? Several linguists have tried to shed light on this problem, where the timing of the current ideological debate, though rational, does not fit well with other, larger, and much less predictable developments currently underway.
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The controversy over inclusive writing revolves around the often-hesitant use of the “middle dot,” a punctuation mark which allows writers to avoid gender bias. In order to “put an end to the invisibility” of the female in the French language, should we call into question, at the cost of an even more difficult learning process, the current system of representation of biographical genres by grammatical genres? Several linguists have tried to shed light on this problem, where the timing of the current ideological debate, though rational, does not fit well with other, larger, and much less predictable developments currently underway.
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