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Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men

By Marlis Hellinger (ed.) , Hadumod Bußmann (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
2003
ISBN
9781588112101, 9781588112118, 9789027218445, 9789027218452, 1588112101, 158811211X, 9027218447, 9027218455, 9789027296818
LCC
P240.7 .G45 2001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4308946 bytes)
Series
Impact: Studies in Language and Society 11
Volume
3
Pages
386\406
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Гендерная лингвист

Description

This is the third 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 the previous two 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.

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