2008/04/29 by UTE GABRIEL, Ute Gabriel, PASCAL GYGAX +1
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Discourse Analysis in Language Studies #Gender Studies in Language #Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00650.x
openalex publication_date 2008/04/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/22
This study investigates the influence of stereotypical information and the grammatical masculine on the representation of gender in Norwegian by applying a sentence evaluation paradigm. In this study participants had to decide whether a second sentence containing explicit information about the gender of one of more of the characters (e.g. . . . one of the women . . . ) was a sensible continuation of a first sentence introducing a role name (e.g. The spies came out . . . ). Participants' representations were biased by the stereotypicality of the role names when reading female (e.g. nurses) and male (e.g. pilots) stereotyped role names (replicating findings from the English sample in a previous publication), but male biased when reading neutral role names (replicating findings from the French and the German samples in a previous publication).