Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men, Volume 2
Marlis Hellinger, Hadumod Bussmann
This is the second 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.Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.
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Contents
Gender across languages
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1 |
Editors note
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27 |
In Chinese men and women are equal or women and men are equal?
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29 |
Genderrelated use of sentencefinal particles in Cantonese
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57 |
Reality and representation
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73 |
Towards a more genderfair usage in Netherlands Dutch
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The communication of gender in Finnish
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109 |
Unnatural gender in Hindi
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133 |
The representation of gender in Norwegian
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219 |
Gender in Spanish
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251 |
Gender in addressing and selfreference in Vietnamese
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281 |
The politics of language and gender in Wales
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313 |
Notes on contributors
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331 |
Name index
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Studies in Language and Society
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349 |
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Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women ..., Volume 2 Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bussmann No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
address terms adjectives advertisements agreement asymmetries Bierbach bokmål Cantonese China Chinese language compounds connotations contexts cultural denoting dialects dictionary discussion Dutch English epicene example exist expressions female and male feminine forms feminist Finnish Gender across languages gender-specific German girl grammatical gender graphs guidelines hijras Hindi husband Icelandic inflectional Italian kinship terms language and gender language planning language reform lexical gender linguistic m.pl masculine masculine and feminine masculine form masculine nouns meaning mình Morgunblaðið morphological mujer neuter neutral non-sexist language Norwegian noun class nynorsk occupational titles ông personal nouns personal pronouns plural political pronominal proper names proverbs referential gender Reykjavík self-reference semantic sentence-final particles sentences sexist singular social socialist society sociolinguistic Spanish speakers speaking specific suffixes Sulekha teacher terms of address tion tôi traditional University University of Tromsø unmarked usage verb Vietnamese Welsh language wife woman words