On the subject of inclusive language

Abstract

In these pages we propose to reflect on the current proposal of inclusive language. In front of it, we adopt a critical posture, although moderate and open to the unfolded use of gender, which allows us to safeguard the ambiguity present in the use of the masculine in its generic or specific function. From our perspective, however, it is not so obvious that a morphological change in the linguistic plane entails a change in the conceptual and evaluative level in matters of inclusion. For this reason, we mention some idiomatic morphologies of other communities of speakers, to make it clear that a generically neutral language does not guarantee the promotion of the inclusion of generic identities, nor of equal rights. Then, the question of language games is focused since its emergence in the worlds of life, emphasizing its gradual, gradual and largely unconscious evolutions, pointing out the conditioning character that every language has established in the life of its speakers. Along these lines, the symbolic violence that connotes the irruptive imposition of a new way of speaking for strictly ideological reasons is noted. Finally, we warn that, contrary to what is sought to be imposed, an authentically inclusive language should not annul the identity differences that it includes, based on a homogenizing way of speaking.