TOWARDS A FEMINIZATION OF JOB NAMES: SOCIAL RESISTANCE OR/AND LINGUISTIC EVOLUTION?
The feminization of job names is a linguistic development that aims to designate job names in feminized forms. This conveys a lot of resistance, largely socio-cultural and linguistic. It involves a cross-cutting approach using language policy, without forgetting the socio-cultural point of view. For some job names, it is difficult to find an equivalent in the feminine. The problem lies fundamentally in the nouns with a unique masculine gender used to designate jobs traditionally for men, to which women now have access. How to name a woman "firefighter"? The field of investigation hereby explored relates to the semantic and morphosyntactic networks which refer to the names of jobs used in the feminine form in the French linguistic system. Despite current attempts at feminization, there exist opponents to the feminization of job names.
Keywords: Applied Linguistics, Feminization, Job Names, Resistance, Linguistic Evolution, Hesitations.