■在当今瞬息万变的世界中,性别公平语言作为代表所有性别的交流媒介的激增可以被认为是令人兴奋的发展。在这种情况下,性别星号的使用在德语中变得特别突出,它是一种语法性别语言。然而,批评家经常争辩说,性别公平的语言使文本不易理解,并降低了其美学吸引力。本研究针对德语测试了这一假设,并且是第一个测试学术背景对性别公平语言可理解性的影响的研究。
■文本,以性别公平的语言编写,使用单数和复数形式的性别之星,或者仅使用男性形式的版本,被随机分配到81名没有学术背景的成年人和82名具有学术背景的成年人(两组中77%为女性).参与者被要求填写一份基于网络的问卷,回答有关文本可理解性和他们对性别公平语言的态度的问题。
■结果显示,以性别公平语言阅读文本的参与者与以男性化语言阅读文本的参与者之间的可理解性等级没有统计学上的显着差异。此外,对性别公平语言的态度不会影响使用性别之星阅读以性别公平语言编写的文本的参与者的可理解性等级。Further,学术背景对性别公平语言的评估没有影响.
■总而言之,本研究表明,没有证据表明性别公平的语言会降低文本的可理解性。
UNASSIGNED: The proliferation of gender-fair language as a medium of communication that represents all genders can be considered as an exciting development in today\'s rapidly changing world. In this context, the use of the gender asterisk has become especially prominent in German, it being a grammatical gender language. However, critics often argue that gender-fair language makes texts less comprehensible and decreases its aesthetic appeal. The present study tests this assumption for the German language and is the first one to test the influence of an academic background on the comprehensibility of gender-fair language.
UNASSIGNED: A text, either written in gender-fair language using the gender star in its singular and plural form or a version using only masculine-only forms, was randomly assigned to 81 adults without an academic background and 82 adults with an academic background (77% women in both groups). Participants were asked to fill out a web-based questionnaire answering questions on text comprehensibility and on their attitudes toward gender-fair language.
UNASSIGNED: The results show no statistically significant difference in comprehensibility ratings between participants who read a text in gender-fair language and those who read a text in masculine-only language. In addition, attitudes toward gender-fair language did not affect comprehensibility ratings in participants who read the text written in gender-fair language using the gender star. Further, the academic background had no effect on the assessment of gender-fair language.
UNASSIGNED: To conclude, the present study suggests that there is no evidence that gender-fair language reduces the comprehensibility of texts.