Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay as a Precursor of „Feminist Linguistics”

Abstract

„Feminist linguistics” has not yet made its mark in Polish linguistics in the way that feminist literary studies have done in the study of literature. It will be interesting at the inception of Polish „feminist linguistics” to recall the views of a scholar who spoke and wrote about sexism inscribed in language (as he sought links between grammatical gender and our view of the world) long before such questions, now hotly disputed, were taken up in the West. He fully deserves to be called the founding father of „feminist linguistics”.