Inclusion in the language: attempts at gender neutrality in Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract

This review addresses the main questions about the symposium Language, grammar, gender and inclusion, which took place on July 14, 2020, at 7 pm, in the series of conferences organized by the Brazilian Association of Linguistics (Abralin), during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the meeting on the 14th, in particular, the question was discussed: is Portuguese a language that favors the male grammatical gender? Therefore, the purpose of this review is to present and discuss attempts to include gender neutrality in Portuguese, since Portuguese is a binary language. In this perspective of speech, Luiz Schwindt, Pedro Surreaux, Bruno Felipe Marques Pinheiro, Andrei Ferreira de Carvalho Pinheiro and Ana Paula Rabelo presented their research and reflections on the theme language, grammar, gender and inclusion. The symposium also had the collaboration of the mediator Raquel Freitag.

Full-text of the article is available for this locale: Português (Brasil).