Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men, Volume 3Marlis Hellinger, Hadumod Bussmann 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. Languages of Volume 3: Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Oriya, Polish, Serbian, Swahili and Swedish. |
Contents
Gender across languages | 1 |
Communicating gender in Czech | 27 |
Equal before the law unequal in language | 59 |
Gender in French | 87 |
Gender and language politics in France | 119 |
Engendering female visibility in German | 141 |
Women gender and Modern Greek | 175 |
Gendered structures in Japanese | 201 |
Language and gender in Polish | 259 |
The expression of gender in Serbian | 287 |
Perceptions of gender in Swahili language and society | 311 |
Linguistic and public attitudes towards gender in Swedish | 339 |
Notes on contributors | 369 |
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STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY | 391 |
Womens language as a group identity marker in Japanese | 227 |
Linguistic and sociocultural implications of gendered structures in Oriya | 239 |
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Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women ..., Volume 3 Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bussmann No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
adjectives agreement anaphoric asymmetries Bußmann common gender compounds contexts Corbett court ladies cultural Czech Czech language Danish derived dhimotiki dictionary discourse English epicenes example expressions family name female and male female reference female-specific feminine forms feminine nouns feminist femme formal française French function Gender across languages gender class gender languages gender-indefinite gender-neutral gender-specific German girl grammatical gender Greek language Hellinger honorific human nouns Ichiko Jan III Sobieski Japanese kanga katharevousa kinship terms language and gender Lech Wałęsa lexemes lexical gender linguistic masculine masculine and feminine masculine nouns masculine terms means morphological morphological class neutral nominal non-sexist language noun class nouns denoting occupational terms Oriya personal nouns plural Polish political pronominal referential gender referring to women semantic Serbian sexism sexual social gender sociolinguistic speakers speech Sprache studies suffix Swahili Swedish texts Theodossia Thessaloniki University usage verb wife woman women's language word-formation words žena