Emma Kious :)

@lingwugstics.bsky.social

PhD student in theoretical and experimental linguistics Quantitative syntax my beloved Grammatical gender, psycholinguistics, interface phenomena For linguistic memes : ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts on tumblr

“Baudouin de Courtenay described gender as a deformity, an unfortunate historical accident that was responsible for a range of human afflictions, including nightmares, pathological behavior, erotic and religious delusions, and sadism (Kilarski, 2007)

Fascinating seminar from Rodrigo Borba on anti-gender-inclusive languages and the anti-gender register → registers as "cultural modes of action that link diverse behav signs to enable effects, inclusing persona, interpresonal relationships, and types of conduct" (Aga 2007)

"For a functional element, singular they enjoys a curious notoriety [...] Though sometimes discussed as though it were a 20th century innovation [...] it has been used [...] with quantificational, non-specific, and genuinely epicene antecedents, going back at least to the 1400s" (Bjorkman, 2017)

“Feminist linguists […] have argued that the markedness of feminine forms in language is emblematic of women’s markedness in society, as the prescriptive shape of a language reflects the behavior and ideologies of its speakers” (Papadopoulos, 2022:42) ~ reading notes

“language can rejuvenate terms that have been out of use to emphasize their gender (Simon [1996] brings back to life the nouns ‘translatress’ and ‘translatrix’).” (Brisset and Oster, 2025:3) ~ notes from my readings (please lets bring back -ess and -rix !!!)

“Too often, in the humanities, 'gender', 'feminine', and 'masculine' are considered as cultural categories removed from the concrete power dynamics that produce them” (Michard, 2003:63) ~ reading notes

“Complexities arise, however, when we consider that gendered language talking about people reflects a social construct negotiated between speakers, not a discrete grammatical or semantic feature (Ackerman 2019; Conrod 2020; McConnell-Ginet, 2014)." (Gardner & Brown-Schmidt 2024:31) ~ reading notes

la dinguerie sexiste trouvée dans un article : "la main est de genre féminin parce qu’elle reçoit (donc, association à l’idée de passivité, de réception, d’attitude où l’on subit quelque chose) tandis que le pied est masculin parce que c’est un agent actif, voire agressif"

Incidentally, a useful tool on here is the labeller from @pronouns.diy . If you subscribe to that labeller and like the posts with your pronouns on, you will be able to see the pronouns of anyone else subscribed to it, and they'll see yours, under your username, like this.

A screenshot of part of a post by me from thirty minutes ago, showing my username and the labels "he/him" and "Bluesky Elder".

“The way we perceive women and men in society is partly grounded in the way we speak or write about these two groups. As such, language acts not only as a vehicle for beliefs, but also as a tool that builds them.” (Gygax et al., 2019:1) ~ reading notes

“Readers are not ‘tabulae rasae’ each time they face a new text. Rather they draw on their knowledge of the world to make assumptions and inferences about the situation described in the text” (Carreiras et al., 1996:539) ~ reading notes

Le mois de mars, entre Semaine de la langue française et de la francophonie, Journée internationale des droits des femmes et autres, sera bien occupé pour les membres du collectif. Vous trouverez sur le site (à droite sur ordi, en bas sur mobile) un agenda que nous nous efforçons de tenir à jour !

Tract des linguistes - Le français va très bien, merci

« Nous, linguistes, sommes proprement atterrées par l’ampleur de la diffusion d’idées fausses sur la langue française, par l’absence trop courante, dans les programmes scolaires comme dans l’espace mé...

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"Dans tous les cas qui viennent d’être mentionnés, le masculin sort en quelque sorte « vainqueur »." (Watbled 2012:12) Les cas en question ? L'accord par résolution (pas systématique) Le masculin générique (pas générique) Les épicènes masculins (donc pas épicènes ?)

Emma Kious :)@lingwugstics.bsky.social · last yr.

“Au pluriel, en cas de mixité, le masculin, c’est bien connu, « l’emporte » sur le féminin : ainsi, l’expression nominale les ouvriers pourra être employée pour désigner un ensemble de femmes et d’hommes.” (Watbled 2012:11) MDR le fameux argument empirique et quantitatif du “c’est bien connu”

“Au pluriel, en cas de mixité, le masculin, c’est bien connu, « l’emporte » sur le féminin : ainsi, l’expression nominale les ouvriers pourra être employée pour désigner un ensemble de femmes et d’hommes.” (Watbled 2012:11) MDR le fameux argument empirique et quantitatif du “c’est bien connu”