O sexismo na língua sob a perspectiva do Manual Prático de Linguagem Inclusiva, de André Fischer

Abstract

The present research is linked to the experience provided in the research group "The Manualization of Linguistic Knowledge: The Process of Production of Inclusive Language Guides", which integrates the Tutorial Education Program (PET) of the Letters course, PET Letters - Laboratory Corpus, from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), and also to the research project “Bank of Public Policies on Languages in Brazil”, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Larissa Montagner Cervo, whose objective is to establish an online bank of public policies on languages in Brazil. The study in question aims to understand how the Practical Manual of Inclusive Language, by André Fischer, works the issue of linguistic sexism, with a less discriminatory use of language. This question arises from the patriarchal historical-ideological relationship, in which society tends to value man more to the detriment of woman. With regard to language, more specifically Portuguese, this is due to the use of the male grammatical genre as a predominant factor in relation to the female gender, as it also works as a neutral gender. To carry out the analysis, two suggestions for a non-sexist use of the language were selected as corpus, which were put in relation with the dictionary meanings, in order to understand what is proposed as a language non-sexist and inclusive, through the notions of paraphrase or metaphor. This analysis will be based on readings grounded by the theoretical-methodological contribution of the discourse analysis, mainly by the bias of the author Eni Orlandi.