Université de Fribourg

Lourdeur de texte et féminisation

Gygax, Pascal ; Gesto, Noelia

In this paper, we tested the idea, raised by the Académie française (2002), that writing role names in both masculine and feminine forms would hinder reading. We presented 40 participants with different texts focused on several professions. The role names were written in one of four grammatical forms : masculine, feminine, or one of two epicène forms (i.e., mécanicien-ne-s or mécaniciens et...