| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 415 pages) |
| Series |
IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society ; 36 |
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Impact, studies in language and society ; 36.
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| Contents |
The linguistic representation of women and men / Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussman -- Some new perspectives on gendered language structures / Heiko Motschenbacher -- Structural gender trouble in Croatian / Heiko Motschenbacher and Marija Weikert -- Gender in a planned language : Esperanto / Sabine Fiedler -- The representation of gender in Estonian / Cornelius Hasselblatt -- Probing the manifestations of gender in Ga / Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey -- Gender in Swiss German / Helen Christen and Daniel Elmiger -- Gender trouble in a grammatically genderless language : Hungarian / Louise O. Vasvári -- The linguistic representation and communication of gender in Igbo / Arua E. Arua -- Gender in Kurdish : structural and socio-cultural dimensions / Geoffrey Haig and Ergin Öpengin -- Gender in Oneida / Karin Michelson -- Gender in Portuguese / Annette Endruschat -- Gender in Slovenian / Ursula Doleschal -- The linguistic representation of gender in Thai / Korakoch Attaviriyanupap |
| Summary |
This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages whose gendered structures have received little or no academic attention in the past. Again, the collection includes a broad spectrum of languages: It contains languages with and without grammatical gender, a language with noun classification and a classifier language; larger national languages as well as smaller languages with minority status; and, of course, members of diverse language families, i.e. Indo-European as well as Finno-Ugrian, Iroquois, Thai-Kadai and Niger-Congo. The volume illustrates the tremendous variation found in the area of gender representation across languages. At the same time, it will provide the much-needed material required for an explicitly comparative approach to linguistic manifestations of gender |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gender.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gender
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hellinger, Marlis, editor.
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Motschenbacher, Heiko, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789027268860 |
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902726886X |
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