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Senta Trömel-Plötz

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Senta Trömel-Plötz
BornFebruary 26, 1939
Munich, Germany
NationalityGerman
CitizenshipGerman, American
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
MovementFeminism
Children3

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

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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

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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

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  • Frauensprache in unserer Welt der Männer (1979) ISBN 3-8794-0162-4

References

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  1. ^ "Senta Trömel-Plötz". FemBio. Fembio. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. ^ Plotz, Senta (1969). Simple Copula Structures in English (Thesis).
  3. ^ Trömel-Plötz, Senta (1971). Operationen in der Linguistik. Buske Helmut Verlag GmbH. ISBN 3-87118-074-2.
  4. ^ "Linguistische Berichte, Inhaltsverzeichnis Heft 57 (contents of vol. 57)" (in German). Leibniz Institute for the German Language. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  5. ^ Methoden und Wahrheiten: Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung in Theorie und Praxis. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-3-902811-17-2. OCLC 760125403.