TY  - CHAP
A1  - Nübling, Damaris
T1  - The phonetic gender score of German first names and pet names :  gendered first names versus de-gendered pet names
T2  - Innovationer i namn och namnmönster : handlingar från NORNA:s 43:e symposium i Halmstad den 6-8 november 2013 / redigerade av Emilia Aldrin, Linnea Gustafsson, Maria Löfdahl och Lena Wenner ; Nordiska Samarbetskommitten för Namnforskning, NORNA-rapporter ; 92
N2  - In German, female and male first names are strictly segregated: there are two big inventories with the only purpose to separate women and men. Unisex names are extremely seldom. If they are chosen, they have to be followed by a sex-specific middle name (e.g. Kim Uwe, Kim Annette). If we look at the phonological components of first names, i.e. at their sounds, we can state that male and female names became more similar over the last decades. Whereas in the 1950's, typical first names such as Katharina and Rolf diverged considering their phonic inventory considerably, today, many girls are named Leah and Lara and many boys Noah and Luca. These names share nearly the same sounds, they consist of two syllables and are stressed on the first one. If we look behind the scenes, it becomes clear that the officially required onomastic separation of the two sexes is undermined. In this paper, I will present a socalled phonetic gender score for German first names for the first time (see also Schmidt-Jüngst in this volume). It allows for measuring a degree of femaleness and maleness of names. In a second step, it will be asked whether unofficial names such as pet names, which are not obliged to mark sex also tend to be gendered or if they disobey the gender barrier. It will be shown that the most intimate names are not interested in stressing the denoted person's sex. In contrast to first names, pet names tend to be maximally de-gendered.
KW  - Rufname
KW  - Geschlechterforschung
KW  - Soziolinguistik
KW  - Namenkunde
KW  - Vorname
KW  - Sozioonomastik
KW  - Genderlinguistik
KW  - Phonologie
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47391
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-473919
UR  - https://www.germanistik.uni-mainz.de/files/2018/06/N%C3%BCbling-2015-gender-score.pdf
SP  - 196
EP  - 215
PB  - NORNA-förlaget
CY  - Uppsala
ER  -