Sexe, gènere i planificació lingüística: el trencament de la CUP

Tomàs Guix, Mireia; Bach, Carme, 1971-

Sexe, gènere i planificació lingüística: el trencament de la CUP

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Bach C, Tomàs M. Sexe, gènere i planificació lingüística: el trencament de la CUP. Revista de llengua i dret. 2017;(67): 145-66.

Abstract

In recent years, non-sexist language has cut out a place for itself in the rhetoric of the political parties. Without question, the CUP is the party that has gone the furthest in terms of breaking the mould as to how gender is treated. In its discourse, we see the use of collective nouns, split nouns and the female generic form with the aim of providing food for thought and changing society. In this article, we comprehensively investigate the changes that the CUP has introduced into its language in relation to gender, the reasons behind the gender criteria applied and, finally, the coherence of its non-sexist discourse. For this analysis, we gathered a collection of materials that included both written texts (electoral programmes, advertising posters and tweets from the CUP) and oral statements (interventions in the Parliament and public statements). As far as the results are concerned, we observed that the use of non-sexist language is exclusively due to ideological reasons, with no linguistic criteria followed systematically. We also observed differences in the use of this language according to the textual gender studied, the intention of the text, the word chosen or the member of the party making the speech or statement.