The master's thesis deals with the topic of language and gender, which is a very current and extremely significant topic in Germany and Slovenia. The debate on the topic of language and gender has produced two major streams of thought - on the one hand, the advocates of the gender-inclusive language, and on the other hand, those who view gender-inclusive language use primarily as ideologizing and find the language sufficiently inclusive in its current state. In Slovenia, the debate around this topic was most lively after the adoption of Resolution No. 41 in the Senate of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. In Germany, the debate is still ongoing on several levels (television, radio, newspaper). Based on this information, the master's thesis first presents different aspects of gender in language, its possible expressions in German and Slovenian, as well as the potential issues caused by the expressions of gender in both languages. The thesis then focuses on the positive and negative attitudes towards the use of gender-inclusive language in the discussions in the daily newspapers Delo and Die Welt. The analysis of attitudes is conducted on a sample of 29 articles in total, which are first divided into two common groups according to the predominant attitude in the article - negative or positive. Subsequently, the positive and negative attitudes are further divided into broader argumentative groups of the attitudes in the articles. In the last part of the master's thesis, the attitudes in the Slovenian newspaper Delo and the German newspaper Die Welt are compared.
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