Senta Trömel-Plötz

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Senta Trömel-Plötz (born February 26, 1939 in Munich ) is a German linguist . Together with Luise F. Pusch she founded feminist linguistics in Germany.

Life

Senta Trömel-Plötz studied linguistics in the USA. She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania with the thesis Simple copula structures in English . The habilitation followed. From 1980 to 1984 she was a professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Konstanz . The professorship was not converted into a regular chair . Trömel-Plötz attributed this to the fact that for political reasons she had not been given a professorship in feminist linguistics in Germany. In the USA there is a lot more openness to feminist issues. Since then she has worked as a freelance linguist and author and has published numerous publications in the fields of formal linguistics, psycholinguistics and feminist linguistics.

Her sociolinguistic text Linguistics and Women's Language , which was published for the first time in 1978 in the journal Linguistic Reports , is considered to be groundbreaking for the development of feminist linguistics in German-speaking countries . With this essay "for the first time a problematic amalgamation of grammatical and biological gender" was suggested. 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 mentally obliterates women."

Trömel-Plötz now lives in Pennsylvania . She regularly gives readings and lectures in Europe.

Fonts (selection)

  • Simple copula structures in English , Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1972
  • Operations in linguistics , research reports from the Institute for Communication Research and Phonetics of the University of Bonn, Vol. 37, Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1971
  • Ed .: Transformational Analysis: the transformation theory of Zellig Harris and its development = Transformational analysis , Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Linguistics and women's language . In: Heinz Sieburg (Ed.): Sprache - Genus / Sexus (Series: Documentation German Research - Volume 3), Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, As 1997, ISBN 978-3 -631-32494-3 , pp. 235-257 (first published in 1978 in Linguistic Reports )
  • With Luise Pusch: Language, Gender and Power , Vieweg Verlag, Wiesbaden 1980
  • Women's language: Language of Change , Frankfurt am Main 1982 (currently under ISBN 978-3-88104-378-6 or ISBN 3-88104-378-0 )
  • Ed .: Violence through language. The rape of women in talks , Frankfurt am Main 1984 ( ISBN 3-596-23745-9 ). 2005 with an updated foreword by the editor, Milena Verlag, ISBN 3-85286-120-9
  • Father tongue - motherland. Observations on women and politics , Munich 1992 ( ISBN 3-88104-219-9 )
  • Women's Talks: Language of Understanding , Frankfurt am Main 1996 ( ISBN 3-596-13161-8 )
  • Mileva Einstein-Maric: An approach. Word Piece , 2005
  • Language: From women's language to language appropriate to women . In: Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek (Hrsg.): Handbook women and gender research. Theory, methods, empiricism , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-16154-9 ( Springer Link )

literature

  • Senta Trömel-Plötz , in: María Isabel Pẽna Aguado, Bettina Schmitz (ed.): Classics of modern feminism , one-subject publishing house, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-928089-51-7 , p. 222f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inaugural lecture by Senta Trömel-Plötz: Women's language in our world of men (Konstanzer Universitätsreden, 132), Universitätsverlag Konstanz 1979, ISBN 3-87940-162-4
  2. ↑ In conversation with Senta Trömel-Plötz , Goethe-Institut ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Senta Trömel-Plötz: The exclusion of women from the university , in: this: father language, mother country
  4. ↑ Linguistic Reports, Issue 57/1978, table of contents
  5. ↑ Received in: Posch, C./Mairhofer, E .: How masculine is the masculine? A question of economy . Praesens publishing house. Vienna 2012, online
  6. ^ Daniela Wawra : Men and women in a job interview. An evolutionary psychological study of their language use in English (series: Contributions to English language and culture, vol. 1), LIT Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7283-1 , p. 2
  7. ↑ Claudia Posch: caught up - hung up. Generic masculine and norms of gender equitable use of language , in: Christina Antenhofer, Andreas Oberprantacher, Kordula Schnegg (Ed.): Methods and Truths , Innsbruck Univ. Press 2011, ISBN 978-3-902811-17-2 , pp. 207-228
  8. ↑ father tongue, mother country . Review by Luise F. Pusch
personal data
SURNAME Trömel-Plötz, Senta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Bavaria, German Empire