Senta Trömel-Plötz
Senta Trömel-Plötz | |
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| Born | February 26, 1939 Munich, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Citizenship | German, American |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania |
| Movement | Feminism |
| Children | 3 |
Senta Trömel-Plötz (born February 26, 1939, in Munich) is a German linguist. Together with Luise F. Pusch she introduced feminist linguistics in Germany.[1]
Life[edit]
Trömel-Plötz studied linguistics in the USA. She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania with the dissertation, Simple Copula Structures in English.[2] This was followed by her habilitation. From 1980 to 1984 she was a professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Konstanz. The professorship was not converted into a permanent position. Trömel-Plötz believes that anti-feminist beliefs at the time prevented her being given tenure. She then chose to move to the USA for better opportunities at Universities. Since then she has worked as a freelance linguist, author, and professor. She has published numerous publications in the fields of formal linguistics, psycholinguistics, and feminist linguistics.
Trömel-Plötz now lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Work[edit]
Her sociolinguistic text Linguistik und Frauensprache (Linguistics and Women's Language), which was published for the first time in 1978[3] in the journal Linguistische Berichte,[4] broke new ground for feminist linguistics in German-speaking countries. This essay proposed "a problematic conflation of grammatical and biological gender" for the first time. Trömel-Plötz "initiated the debate about the supposedly gender-neutral generic masculine and criticized the fact that this form does not seem gender-neutral but conceptually erases women."[5]
Published works[edit]
- Frauensprache in unserer Welt der Männer (1979) ISBN 3-8794-0162-4
References[edit]
- ^ "Senta Trömel-Plötz". FemBio. Fembio. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ Plotz, Senta (1969). Simple Copula Structures in English (Thesis).
- ^ Trömel-Plötz, Senta (1971). Operationen in der Linguistik. Buske Helmut Verlag GmbH. ISBN 3-87118-074-2.
- ^ "Linguistische Berichte, Inhaltsverzeichnis Heft 57 (contents of vol. 57)" (in German). Leibniz Institute for the German Language. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ Methoden und Wahrheiten: Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung in Theorie und Praxis. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-3-902811-17-2. OCLC 760125403.
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