CLUNL

Antónia Coutinho, researcher at the Grammar & Text research group of CLUNL, contributes to the issue 51 of ex æquo journal (magazine of the Portuguese Association for Women’s Studies) with the article “Linguagem sensível ao género – ou a língua reinterpretada” (Gender-sensitive language – or language reinterpreted).

Abstract: “This article aims at stimulating linguistic refection on gender-sensitive language in the Portuguese context, in different epistemologies. First, it examines whether there are linguistic reasons for generic masculine and noun agreement in the masculine, discussing reference grammatical explanations in Portugal. A qualitative description of alternative solutions in contemporary European Portuguese follows this. Finally, in line with socio- interactionist linguistics, indebted to Saussure and Coseriu, language is seen in the dialectical movement from the social to the individual and from the individual to the social – and in the tension between solidarity with the inherited technique, its reinterpretation and the initiative to recreate it.”

The article is available in open access at the following address: https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2025.01.07

• Coutinho, Antónia (2025). Linguagem sensível ao género – ou a língua reinterpretada. ex aequo, 51 [dossier: “Perspetivas interseccionais sobre violência contra populações especialmente vulneráveis”], pp.99-115. e-ISSN 2184-0385. Available at: https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2025.01.07