Gender across languages : the linguistic representation of women and men
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.
Impact, v. 9
xii, 328 pages ; 25 cm.
9789027218407, 9781588110824, 9781588110831, 9789027218414, 9027218404, 1588110826, 1588110834, 9027218412
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550338707
1. Languages of Volume II and III; 2. Preface; 3. Acknowledgments; 4. List of abbreviations; 5. Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men (by Hellinger, Marlis); 6. Arabic. Shifting sands: Language and gender in Moroccan Arabic (by Hachimi, Atiqa); 7. Belizean Creole. Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change (by Escure, Genevieve); 8. Eastern Maroon Creole. Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina); 9. English. Gender in a global language (by Hellinger, Marlis); 10. English. A corpus-based view of gender in New Zealand (by Holmes, Janet); 11. English. Spreading the feminist word: The case of the new courtesy title Ms in Australian English (by Pauwels, Anne); 12. English. A corpus-based view of gender in British and American English (by Romaine, Suzanne); 13. Hebrew. Gender switch in Modern Hebrew (by Tobin, Yishai); 14. Indonesian. Gender in Javanese Indonesian (by Kuntjara, Esther); 15. Romanian. Deconstructing gender - The case of Romanian (by Maurice, Florence); 16. Russian. Doing gender in Russian: Structure and perspective (by Doleschal, Ursula); 17. Turkish. The communication of gender in Turkish (by Braun, Friederike); 18. Notes on contributors; 19. Name index; 20. Subject index