Gender across languages . Volume 4 / / edited by Marlis Hellinger, Goethe University Frankfurt, Heiko Motschenbacher, Technical University of Braunschweig

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511689403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-272-6886-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (431 p.)
• Collana: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society ; ; Volume 36
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Gender; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Gender Across Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Languages of volume I, II and III; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; The linguistic representation of women and men: An overview; 1. Aims and scope of "Gender across languages"; 2. Gender classes as a special case of noun classes; 3. Categories of gender; 4. Gender-related structures; 5. Gender-related messages; 6. Language change and language reform; 7. Conclusion; Notes; References; Some new perspectives on gendered language structures; 1. Introduction; 2. Structural gender linguistics - A marginalised field?3. Developments in structural gender linguistics; 4. Central insights from the languages of this volume; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; Structural gender trouble in Croatian; 1. Introduction; 2. Categories of gender; 3. Gender-related structures; 4. Usage of personal reference forms; 5. Language change and language reform; 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; Gender in a planned language: Esperanto; 1. Introduction; 2. Gender-related structures; 3. Language reform; 4. Gender in Esperanto proverbs; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; The representation of gender in Estonian1. Introduction; 2. Categories ; of gender; 3. Gender-related structures; 4. Usage of personal reference forms; 5. Language change and language reform; 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; Probing the manifestations of gender in Ga; 1. Introduction; 2. Categories of gender in Ga; 3. Gendered structures; 4. Usage of personal nouns; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; Gender in Swiss German; 1. Swiss German; 2. Categories of gender; 3. Gender-related structures; 4. Usage of personal reference forms; 5. Language planning and non-sexist language; 6. Conclusion; NotesReferences; Gender trouble in a grammatically genderless language: Hungarian; 1. Introduction ; 2. Categories of gender; 2.1 Lexical and referential gender; 2.2 Social gender ; 2.3 Male-specific and generic ember 'man' ; 3. Gender-related structures; 3.1 Compounding ; 3.2 Pronominalization ; 4. Usage of personal reference forms; 4.1 Naming conventions and courtesy titles ; 4.2 Address terms ; 4.3 Idioms, proverbs and obscene expressions ; 5. Language change and language reform; 6. Conclusion; References; The linguistic representation and communication of gender in Igbo; 1. Introduction; 2. Categories of gender3. Gender-related structures; 4. Usage of personal reference forms; 5. Language change and reform; 6. Conclusion; Note; References; Gender in Kurdish: Structural and socio-cultural dimensions; 1. Introduction; 2. Categories of gender; 3. Gender-related structures; 4. Usage of personal reference forms; 5. Language change: Public discourse on gender in language; 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; Gender in Oneida; 1. Introduction; 2. Person, number and gender prefixes on verbs and nouns; 3. Categories of gender in Oneida; 4. The feminine-zoic; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References