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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815647103321

Autore

Alvanoudi Angeliki

Titolo

Grammatical gender in interaction : cultural and cognitive aspects / / Angeliki Alvanoudi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28315-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, , 1879-5412 ; ; Volume 9

Disciplina

489/.3045

Soggetti

Greek language, Modern - Grammar

Greek language, Modern - Noun

Greek language, Modern - Noun phrase

Greek language - Sex differences

Greek language, Modern - Psychological aspects

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 and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Grammatical Gender -- 3 Grammatical Gender and the Intersection of Sociocultural Gender/Sex -- 4 Grammatical Gender and Speakers’ Cognition -- 5 Grammatical Gender, Culture and Cognition in Interaction -- 6 The Empirical Investigation of Grammatical Gender in Interaction -- 7 What Can We Conclude? -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

In Grammatical Gender in Interaction: Cultural and Cognitive Aspects Angeliki Alvanoudi explores the relation between grammatical gender in person reference, culture and cognition in Modern Greek conversation. The author investigates the cultural and cognitive aspects of grammatical gender, by drawing on feminist sociolinguistic and non-linguistic approaches, cognitive linguistics, research on linguistic relativity, studies on person reference in interaction and conversation analysis. The study presented in this book shows that the use of grammatical gender contributes to the routine achievement of sociocultural gender in interaction and that grammatical gender guides speakers’ thinking of referents as female or male at the time of



speaking.