Gender across languages : the linguistic representation of women and men / / edited by Marlis Hellinger, Hadumod Bussmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824858103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-16145-8; 9786612161452; 90-272-9681-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (405 p.)
• Collana: Impact: studies in language and society ; ; v. 11
• Altri autori (Persone): HellingerMarlis; BussmannHadumod
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Gender; Semantics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Gender Across Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Languages of Volume I -- Languages of Volume II -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Gender across languages -- Czech: Communicating gender in Czech -- Danish: Equal before the law - unequal in language -- French: Gender in French -- French: Gender and language politics in France -- German: Engendering female visibility in German -- Greek: Women, gender and Modern Greek -- Japanese: Gendered structures in Japanese -- Japanese: Women's language as a group identity marker in Japanese -- Oriya: Linguistic and socio-cultural implications of gendered structures in Oriya -- Polish: Language and gender in Polish -- Serbian: The expression of gender in Serbian -- Swahili: Perceptions of gender in Swahili language and society -- Swedish: Linguistic and public attitudes towards gender in Swedish -- Notes on contributors -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series IMPACT: STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY.
• Sommario/riassunto: 1.Introduction 2.Grammatical gender and agreement 3.Personal nouns 3.1Nouns with lexical gender 3.2Gender-indefinite personal nouns 3.3Word-formation 3.3.1Compounding 3.3.2Derivation 4.; Pronominalisation 4.1Grammatical agreement relations 4.2Semantic agreement relations 4.2.1Semantic agreement: Common vs. neuter gender 4.2.2Semantic agreement: Female vs. male pronouns 5.Other possibilities for gender-specific personal reference 6.Language change under the influence of the feminist movement 6.1Neutralisation 6.2Overt gender-specification 6.3Pronouns 6.4Adjectival modification 7.Public attitudes towards feminist language change in the 1990s 8.Conclusion Notes References.