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When Voisins Can Be Women and When They Cannot - Masculine Generics in French: An Experimental Study on the Influence of Stereotypicality and Role Noun Type on the Interpretation of Masculine Role Nouns.

・ISBN 978-3-662-71662-5 paper EUR 109.99

¥27,221.- (税込)

著者・編者 Stumm, Clara,
シリーズ (Linguistik in Empirie und Theorie / Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics)
出版社 (J. B. Metzler, GW)
出版年 2025
ページ数 269 pp.
ニュース番号 <753-2366>

This book examines whether masculine plural role nouns in French trigger a male-specific interpretation. By closely replicating the French sample of an experiment run by Gygax et al. in 2008, Experiment 1 suggests that stereotypically male, neutral and female masculine role nouns tend to be associated with men. Experiment 2 focuses on the role noun type of stereotypically neutral role nouns (occupational nouns vs. non-occupational nouns) and indicates that the masculine role nouns were interpreted as referring to both men and women. While the findings of Experiment 1 align with an extensive body of previous empirical research, the results of Experiment 2 challenge most previous findings. In other words, the interpretation of masculine role nouns seems to be influenced by multiple factors and appears to be a complex phenomenon. In this vein, the approach sketched in this book is a step towards understanding the interpretation of masculine role nouns as a multifactorial phenomenon.