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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971299203321

Autore

Hellinger Marlis

Titolo

Gender Across Languages . Volume 2 [[electronic resource] ] : The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002

John Benjamins Publishing Company

ISBN

9786612162091

9781282162099

1282162098

9789027297662

9027297665

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Impact, studies in language and society, , 1385-7908 ; ; 10

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Gender

Linguistics

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES

Linguistics / General

Philology & Linguistics

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Gender Across Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Languages of Volume I -- Languages of Volume III -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Gender across languages -- Chinese: Editors' note -- Chinese: In Chinese, men and women are equal - or - women and men are equal? -- Chinese: Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese -- Chinese: Reality and representation -- Dutch: Towards a more gender-fair usage in Netherlands Dutch -- Finnish: The communication of gender in Finnish -- Hindi: "Unnatural" gender in Hindi* -- Icelandic: Masculine generics in current Icelandic* -- Italian: Gender and female visibility in Italian -- Norwegian: The representation of gender in Norwegian -- Spanish: Gender in Spanish -- Vietnamese:



Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese -- Welsh: The politics of language and gender in Wales -- Notes on contributors -- Name index -- Subject index -- IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society.

Sommario/riassunto

1.Introduction  2. Welsh versus English: Language shift and the struggle for legitimacy in the public domain  3. Selected structural properties of the Welsh language  3.1 Grammatical gender and referential gender  3.2 The pronoun system  3.3 Generic masculines  4. Bringing the language and gender debate to centre stage  5. Guidelines for non-discriminatory language use  6. The ongoing debate  Notes References.