Class Year
2020
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Spring 2020
Department 1
Anthropology
Abstract
Grammatical structures that differ among languages can affect the way people of different cultures think, speak, and behave. Because of its close ties with identity, language also has the ability to manipulate the way people view themselves and others. Ethnographic research among English and German speakers shows that these differing grammatical structures affect the integration into society of nonbinary, intersex, and agender individuals through a grammatical predisposition for gender neutral language. As such, the means of increasing social integration of these groups also differs between linguistic and cultural borders.
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Recommended Citation
Philippou, Zoe A., "The Myth of Neutrality: Linguistic Influence in the Integration of Nonbinary Identities in English and German" (2020). Student Publications. 835.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/835
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Comments
Written as a Senior Capstone in Anthropology and presented as part of the Kolbe Fellowship program.