Sexist drafting and translation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU

  1. María López Medel 1
  1. 1 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

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Revista:
LFE: Revista de lenguas para fines específicos

ISSN: 1133-1127

Año de publicación: 2022

Título del ejemplar: On communicative skills in foreign language teaching and academic language instruction: tools, resources and methods in the digital era

Volumen: 28

Número: 1

Páginas: 157-172

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (adopted in 2000 and legally binding since 2009) was the object of criticism during the drafting process on gender grounds,for the use of sexist language, the lack of gender mainstreaming, and for not takinga clearer stance on the support of equality between women and men, among other issues.This article lists the main amendments that were submitted in this respect. The final version of the Charter was modified to eliminate sexist language in the original English text but not in other language versions, as we will see in the analysis. Based on the European Institute for Gender Equality’s definition of non-sexist use of language as the avoidance of the ambiguous masculine gender, we will highlight the appearance oftheso-called generic masculine in the Charter’s English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portugueseversions.Finally, a proposal for anon-sexist Spanish translationis included with the aim ofdemonstratingthe functional adequacy, simplicity and need to implement non-sexist translation and drafting of EU texts.

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