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Inclusive language remains a hot topic. Despite decades of empirical evidence and revisions of formal language use, many inclusive adaptations of English and German continue to be ignored or contested. But how to convince speakers of the importance of inclusive language? Rewriting Language provides one possible answer: by engaging readers with the issue, literary texts can help to raise awareness and thereby promote wider linguistic change. Christiane Luck analyses five iconic texts from a literary, linguistic and sociological perspective. She shows how Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Verena Stefan’s Häutungen highlight the issues inherent in the linguistic status quo; Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and June Arnold’s The Cook and the Carpenter explore the possibilities and challenges of linguistic neutrality; and Gerd Brantenberg’s Egalias døtre reverses linguistic norms to illustrate the link between language and imagination. A focus group study provides empirical evidence for the effectiveness of the literary approaches and shows how literary texts can sensitise readers to the impact of biased language. Particularly in the context of education, Luck concludes, literary texts can be a valuable tool to promote inclusive language use.

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"This study focuses on the language around sexuality and discourses about sex, labeled by the authors as metasex, from a broad crosslinguistic perspective. Unlike many existing studies on sexting that predominantly take into account the linguistic practices of teenagers often located in the Global North, this book offers a more holistic approach by discussing Southern concepts of body parts, their conceptualization and mediatization ("dick pics"), the interconnectedness of food and sex and its sensualization ("food porn") as well as processes of social cohesion around sex, sociability and conviviality ("bonding"). Based on an anthropological linguistic perspective, the authors analyze metasex practices from Nigeria, DR Congo, Uganda, the Mediterranean, and numerous other contexts. Africanist Agnes Brühwiler's afterword on sex (talk) in Tanzania rounds off the various fresh insights this study offers"--

Language and sex --- Sexting --- Advertising --- Language and culture --- Discourse analysis --- Pragmatics --- #SBIB:39A8 --- #SBIB:309H518 --- #SBIB:613.88H10 --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Ads --- Advertisements --- Advertising, Consumer --- Advertising, Retail --- Advertising, Store --- Commercial speech --- Consumer advertising --- Retail advertising --- Speech, Commercial --- Store advertising --- Business --- Communication in marketing --- Industrial publicity --- Retail trade --- Advertisers --- Branding (Marketing) --- Propaganda --- Public relations --- Publicity --- Sales promotion --- Selling --- Sex-texting --- Telephone sex --- Text messaging (Cell phone systems) --- Sex and language --- Sex --- Food --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Seksualiteit: algemeen --- Philosophy