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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.

Life

Trömel-Plötz studied linguistics in the USA. She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania with the dissertation, Simple Copula Structures in English. 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

Her sociolinguistic text Linguistik und Frauensprache (Linguistics and Women's Language), which was published for the first time in 1978 in the journal Linguistische Berichte, 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."

Published works

References

  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.
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