Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men, Volumen1Marlis Hellinger, Hadumod Bussmann John Benjamins Publishing, 2001 M01 1 - 341 páginas This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on Gender across Languages , which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and its follow-up volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material. Languages of Volume 1: Arabic, Belizean Creole, Eastern Maroon Creole, English (American, New Zealand, Australian), Hebrew, Indonesian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish. |
Contenido
Gender across languages | 1 |
Shifting sands | 27 |
Belizean Creole Gender creole and the role of women in language change | 53 |
Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname | 85 |
English Gender in a global language | 105 |
A corpusbased view of gender in New Zealand English | 115 |
Spreading the feminist word | 137 |
A corpusbased view of gender in British and American English | 153 |
Gender in Javanese Indonesian | 199 |
Deconstructing gender The case of Romania | 229 |
Doing gender in Russian | 253 |
The communication of gender in Turkish | 283 |
Notes on contributors | 311 |
Name index | 317 |
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STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY | 329 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women ..., Volumen1 Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women ..., Volumen1 Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bussmann Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
Términos y frases comunes
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