Gender Correctness in German Speaking Communication
Gender correctness in speech communication shows the gender origin of the speaker / writer or takes into account the one by the partner of communication. In speaking practices of the feminist discourse there has formed the system of verbal and nonverbal symbols, used for gender-correct communication, first of all in writing communication. After long discussion in media the German orthographic council refused to include these symbols in the officially approved rules of orthography, which however didn’t stop discussions in the German speaking society.