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Luise F. Pusch (born 14 January 1944 in Gütersloh, Germany) is a German linguist. She is regarded as the co-founder of feminist linguistics in Germany, along with Senta Trömel-Plötz.

Luise F. Pusch
Luise F. Pusch in September 2013
Born1944 (age 7778)
NationalityGerman
OccupationLinguist
Years active1970s-
Known forco-founder of German feminist linguistics

Life and education


Luise Pusch studied English, Latin and linguistics at the University of Hamburg. In 1972 she received her doctorate in English.[1] In 1978, she qualified for the linguistics faculty at the University of Konstanz. From 1979 to 1984 she was a Heisenberg Fellow in the field of feminist linguistic research. Before feminist linguistics became her specialty, she worked on syntactic issues such as construction of gerunds. From 1982 to 1985 she held professorships in English and German in Leibniz University Hannover and in the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 1985, she was named adjunct professor at the University of Konstanz. In 1990-1991, she was professor for women's studies at the University of Münster.[2] Since 1986, Pusch has been partnered with U.S. Germanist Joey Horsley from Boston, and splits her time between there and Hannover.[3]


Career


In the mid-1970s, U.S. feminists such as Robin Lakoff and others had begun to pay attention to the gender discrimination inherent in the language itself, and the way it was used. Feminist linguistics didn't originally develop out of the academic linguistic discipline, but from theoreticians within oppressed groups.[4] From those beginnings, it was brought into the field of linguistics by two professors of linguistics, Senta Trömel-Plötz and Pusch who started the program of Feminist linguistics at the University of Konstanz. The first essays to appear in Germany about the topic were in 1979 in the journal Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie, and in 1980 in Linguistische Berichte.[4]

Since the 1970s Pusch has been committed to a gender-appropriate language, for example in essays, commentary, discussions, lectures and workshops.

In her 1980 essay, "German as Men's Language: Diagnosis and Therapy Ideas" (Das Deutsche als Männersprache. Diagnose und Therapievorschläge) , she wrote that standard German has a built-in bias favoring males, that this is problematic, and that the simplest solution to the problem lies in partial de-genderization of the language. To that end, the feminine suffixes -in and -innen could be done away with; female professors would become, simply, "Professor" (instead of Professorin) or "Schriftsteller" (writer) instead of Schriftstellerin.

Due to the expected non-acceptance of such a proposal, she pleaded for the stepped up use of Binnen-I (e.g., SchülerIn (schoolchild) ) in order to avoid use of the paired-word form, Schülerinnen und Schüler (schoolgirls and schoolboys). Besides her linguistic work, she built a biographical database containing the biographies of 30,000 women.[5]

In 1981 she wrote the autobiographical novel Sonja: eine Melancholie für Fortgeschrittene (″Sonja: Melancholia for Intermediates″) about her suicidal partner under the pseudonym Judith Offenbach.[citation needed]


Awards


The association BücherFrauen [de], a network of women in the book industry, chose Luise F. Pusch as "BookWoman of the Year" 2004.[6] On her 70th Birthday, Pusch was honored with the commemorative Sprachwandlerin award.[7] The Darmstadt-based Luise Büchner Society awarded Pusch their 5th Luise Büchner Prize for Media studies in November 2016.[8]


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References


  1. Pusch 1978.
  2. Vita 2015.
  3. Louis 2014.
  4. Stötzel 1995, p. 518.
  5. Fembio 2018.
  6. Pusch 1999a.
  7. von Bönninghausen 2014.
  8. AZ 2016.

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На других языках


[de] Luise F. Pusch

Luise F. Pusch (* 14. Januar 1944 in Gütersloh als Frohmut Pusch[1]) ist eine deutsche feministische Sprachwissenschaftlerin. Sie gilt zusammen mit Senta Trömel-Plötz und Marlis Hellinger als Begründerin der feministischen Linguistik in Deutschland.[2] Auch unter dem Pseudonym Judith Offenbach hat sie publiziert. Pusch gilt als Erfinderin der Gender-Pause im Deutschen.
- [en] Luise F. Pusch



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