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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781218903321

Titolo

Slavic gender linguistics / / edited by Margaret H. Mills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-283-17472-3

9786613174727

90-272-8385-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 251 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 61

Altri autori (Persone)

MillsMargaret H. <1954->

Disciplina

491.8

Soggetti

Slavic languages - Sex differences

Slavic languages - Usage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

SLAVIC GENDER LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Background and Introduction; Referential knowledge in discourse: Interpretation of {I, you} in male and female speech; Gender, iconicity, and agreement in Russian; A gender linguistic analysis of Mrozek's Tango; Gender linguistic analysis of Russian children'sliterature; Gender roles and perception: Russian diminutives in discourse; Gender and conversational management in Russian; ""Teacher talk"" in the Russian and Americanclassroom:Dominance and cultural framing

Speaker, gender, and the choice of 'communicatives' in contemporary Russian; The rule of femininization in Russian; Gender-based results of a quantitative analysis of spoken Czech: Contribution to the Czech national corpus; Whence virility? The rise of a new gender distinction in the history of Slavic; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This edited volume offers the first comprehensive collection devoted to the study of Slavic gender linguistics by a team of international Slavic linguists. It features eleven highly-original, data-driven contributions representing a variety of approaches to this understudied and underrepresented area of contemporary Slavic linguistics. For those working specifically in the field of gender linguistics, the collection



presents the first English-language introduction to this vital area of sociolinguistic research based upon findings from contemporary Russian, Polish, Czech and other Slavic languages