Abstract:

In this article, we search to find out, five decades after the field’s foundation in 1975, the main language and gender literature, which has been influencing post 2000 articles of Feminist linguistic researches. We studied these same articles regarding their explicit positioning about the relevance of the gender for feminist linguistics research. For that, we selected articles produced in Anglophone and Brazilian contexts, published from 2000 to 2017. The results suggest that the set of publications most cited as theoretical support by the analysed articles is those of the British linguist Deborah Cameron. The most individually consulted work is Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990). Regarding the relevance of gender issues for research, we notice that most of the articles take its importance for granted, which can be taken as an index of the consolidation of the field.

Keywords:
Feminist linguistics; Feminism; Gender; Language; Discourse