Linguagem inclusiva e comunicação não sexista na Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Abstract

Changes in language with the aim of making communication less sexist is a social agenda for gender equality. The discussion has been gaining prominence in social networks, in informal and formal communication, including in texts prepared by government institutions. This study aims to identify the occurrences of gender-inclusive language expressions in documents prepared by the Federal University of Sergipe within the scope of Superior Councils, between the years 2017 and 2022. An analysis of the variable expression of gender of the nominal referents related to people in a corpus made up of pedagogical projects from undergraduate courses and UFS resolutions. The analysis started with the use of the Python programming language, making use of some of the libraries available to search for patterns in text and generate a spreadsheet of occurrences. The results show that there are few occurrences of expressions that denote gender-inclusive language and that these have increased in recent years, a period in which women assumed positions in the senior administration of UFS. This indicates that social changes (the presence of women in spaces dominated by men) influence gender equality, for example, in an attempt to establish more inclusive communication.