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{{Infobox person
| name               = Senta Trömel-Plötz
| native_name_lang   = German
| birth_date         = February 26, 1939
| birth_place        = [[Munich]], Germany
| children           = 3
| nationality        = German
| citizenship        = German, American
| education          = [[University of Pennsylvania]]
| movement           = [[Feminism]]
}}
'''Senta Trömel-Plötz''' (born February 26, 1939, in [[Munich]]) is a German linguist. Together with [[Luise F. Pusch]] she introduced [[feminist linguistics]] in Germany.<ref>{{cite web |title=Senta Trömel-Plötz |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/senta-troemel-ploetz/ |website=FemBio |publisher=Fembio |accessdate=11 November 2020}}</ref>
== Life ==
Trömel-Plötz studied [[linguistics]] in the USA. She received her doctorate from the [[University of Pennsylvania]] with the dissertation, ''Simple Copula Structures in English''.<ref name="dissertation">{{Cite thesis |last=Plotz |first=Senta |title=Simple Copula Structures in English |date=1969 |url=https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI7016199}}</ref> This was followed by her [[habilitation]]. From 1980 to 1984 she was a professor in the Linguistics Department at the [[University of Konstanz]]. The professorship was not converted into a permanent position. Trömel-Plötz believes that anti-feminist beliefs at the time prevented her being given tenure. She then chose to move to the USA for better opportunities at Universities. Since then she has worked as a freelance linguist, author, and professor. She has published numerous publications in the fields of formal linguistics, [[psycholinguistics]], and [[feminist linguistics]].
Trömel-Plötz now lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
==Work==
Her sociolinguistic text {{lang|de|Linguistik und Frauensprache}} (Linguistics and Women's Language), which was published for the first time in 1978<ref>{{cite book |last1=Trömel-Plötz |first1=Senta |title=Operationen in der Linguistik |date=1971 |publisher=Buske Helmut Verlag GmbH |isbn= 3-87118-074-2 }}</ref> in the journal {{lang|de|Linguistische Berichte}},<ref>{{cite web |title=Linguistische Berichte, Inhaltsverzeichnis Heft 57 (contents of vol. 57) |url=https://pub.ids-mannheim.de//extern/lb/lb1978-5.html |publisher=[[Leibniz Institute for the German Language]] |access-date=4 December 2023 |language=de}}</ref> broke new ground for feminist linguistics in German-speaking countries. This essay proposed "a problematic conflation of grammatical and biological gender" for the first time. Trömel-Plötz "initiated the debate about the supposedly gender-neutral generic masculine and criticized the fact that this form does not seem gender-neutral but conceptually erases women."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760125403 |title=Methoden und Wahrheiten: Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung in Theorie und Praxis |publisher=Innsbruck University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-3-902811-17-2 |location=Innsbruck |oclc=760125403}}</ref>
=== Published works ===
* ''Frauensprache in unserer Welt der Männer'' (1979) {{ISBN|3-8794-0162-4}}
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[[Category:1939 births]]
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[[Category:German feminists]]
[[Category:Franklin & Marshall College faculty]]
[[Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Konstanz]]
[[Category:People from Munich]]
[[Category:German women writers]]