ON FEMINIZATION OF THE GERMAN PRONOUN "MAN" IN THE SPACE OF INTERNET
This article is an attempt to retrace how much the German pronoun „frau“ has overstepped the bounds of its native feminist discourse and entered the feminist neutral internet discourse. Feminist linguists recommended using the pronoun “frau” in female contexts instead of the pronoun “man” to emphasize that the person referred to is female. Since its emergence in German, the pronoun “frau” has expanded its initial domain and is used today beyond the female contexts.