Pronome neutro na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2)

Gender-neutral language in Portuguese is a recent strand of demands for greater

gender equality Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing d ...

and

social inclusion Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society. It is a term that has been used widely in Europe and was first used in France in the late 20th century. It is used across discipline ...

between men,

women A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or Adolescence, adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female hum ...

and non-binary individuals. It can be divided into inclusive or non-

sexist Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but it primarily affects women and girls.There is a clear and broad consensus among academic scholars in multiple fields that sexism refers primaril ...

language, and non-binary or neuter

language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

or neolanguage. Inclusive language aims to use existing words to include all genders, while neuter language uses new or modified words to accomplish this.

Context

Most words in Portuguese have one grammatical gender, the masculine or the feminine. The creation of

gender-neutral Gender neutrality (adjective form: gender-neutral), also known as gender-neutralism or the gender neutrality movement, is the idea that policies, language, and other social institutions (social structures or gender roles) should avoid distinguish ...

terms and removal of gender markers aims to make non-binary people feel included.

Proposals

Agreement

One of the proposal is using

metonymy Metonymy () is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. Etymology The words ''metonymy'' and ''metonym'' come from grc, μετωνυμία, 'a change of name' ...

periphrasis In linguistics, periphrasis () is the use of one or more function words to express meaning that otherwise may be expressed by attaching an affix or clitic to a word. The resulting phrase includes two or more collocated words instead of one infl ...

and circumlocution following

agreement Agreement may refer to: Agreements between people and organizations * Gentlemen's agreement, not enforceable by law * Trade agreement, between countries * Consensus, a decision-making process * Contract, enforceable in a court of law ** Meeting o ...

, sometimes including the usage of people-first language, whereas the word ( pt, person) has feminine grammatical gender with no

natural gender In linguistics, grammatical gender system is a specific form of noun class system, where nouns are assigned with gender categories that are often not related to their real-world qualities. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns ...

markedness, similar with the usage of no pronouns in English, a form of gender omission. Many nouns and adjectives are referred as "uniforms", which are words that can be used to refer to people of any gender, they are not necessarily neutral but are useful for an inclusive language. This proposal is known as gender-inclusive language or gender-neutral

syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...

-x and @

Gendered suffixes, specially , are replaced with at sign or to neutralize words, such as in (students) and (everyone). These forms are not pronounceable, they are meant to be graphical, being criticized for not being readable by screen readers and seen as potentially

ableist Ableism (; also known as ablism, disablism (British English), anapirophobia, anapirism, and disability discrimination) is discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities or who are perceived to be disabled. Ableism characteri ...

. The use of at signs are recorded since 1990s, such as in words "''Unid@s''" (United).

Neopronouns

Portuguese

neopronouns Neopronouns are a category of neologistic English Third person (grammar), third-person personal pronouns beyond " he", "she", "they", " one", and " it". Neopronouns are preferred by some non-binary individuals who feel that neopronouns provide o ...

are a gender-neutral approach to

pronominal In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (abbreviated ) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the parts of speech, but some modern theorists would not c ...

reference to living things, especially humans. They are neopronouns, i.e. a newly developed, intentional innovation of language (as opposed to natural

language change Language change is variation over time in a language's features. It is studied in several subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary linguistics. Traditional theories of historical linguistics identify ...

). Depending on the ungendered neopronoun one identifies with (e.g. ), there are various suggestions. ''Elo'', for example, is recorded since

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to describe

travestis The term travesti () is used in Latin America—to designate people who were assigned male at birth, but develop a gender identity according to different expressions of femininity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in ...

. See the below table with suggestions for various

inflections In linguistic morphology, inflection (or inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and def ...

of some neopronouns:

Neolanguage

Neolanguage () stands for neologistic desinences,

articles Article often refers to: * Article (grammar), a grammatical element used to indicate definiteness or indefiniteness * Article (publishing), a piece of nonfictional prose that is an independent part of a publication Article may also refer to: G ...

, nouns and declesions along with

pronouns In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (list of glossing abbreviations, abbreviated ) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the part of speech, parts o ...

. A form of neolanguage can be expressed with the words (friends), (psychologist), and (pretty) for example, using suffix. Usually, not using the article is recommended, however there are proposals for articles, such as and . Neolinguistic terms can be used for groups of multiple genders or non-binary individuals, for example.

References

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