Affiliation:
1. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Abstract
Abstract
The article provides a comprehensive overview of attitudes towards nonbinary pronouns, with the aim of better
understanding why these pronouns are either accepted or rejected. Attitudes towards nonbinary they and the
neopronouns ze and xe are explored with a thematic analysis of data derived from a larger online
survey on pronouns (n = 1128). While the results demonstrate various polarized stances for both types of
pronouns, the participants’ reactions highlight greater acceptance of and support for nonbinary they. In
addition, the paper proposes that broader ideologies about gender are behind the participants’ overt reactions to nonbinary
pronouns. Most notably, while some participants rejected the pronouns on the basis of a binary gender ideology, others viewed
gender as a matter of self-identification, accepting any pronoun an individual chooses for themselves.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Anthropology,Language and Linguistics,Gender Studies
Cited by
2 articles.
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