Impact of inclusive language promoted by feminist movements on gender-marked paroemias in Spanish

Abstract

Approaching the area of phraseology occupied by paroemias from a gender perspective involves a confluence of two lines of research: language and discourse. The aim of this introductory study is to check whether the paroemias included in the paremiological repertoire Refranero Multilingüe using the universal masculine are currently used in a feminised way. For this purpose, a lexicographical and textual corpus methodology is employed. Preliminary results seem to indicate that the paremias collected in the Refranero Multilingue with the universal masculine mostly accept feminisation in the discourse when the referent is feminine.