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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972649603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2001-

ISBN

9786612162572

9781282162570

1282162578

9789027298270

9027298270

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Impact, studies in language and society, , 1385-7908 ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

HellingerMarlis

BussmannHadumod

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Gender Across Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Languages of Volume II -- Languages of Volume III -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Gender across languages -- Arabic: Shifting sands -- Belizean Creole: Belizean Creole: Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change -- Eastern Maroon Creole: Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname -- English: English - Gender in a global language -- English: A corpus-based view of gender in New Zealand English -- English: Spreading the feminist word -- English: A corpus-based view of gender in British and American English -- Hebrew: Gender switch in Modern Hebrew -- Indonesian: Gender in Javanese Indonesian -- Romanian: Deconstructing gender - The case of Romania -- Russian: Doing gender in Russian -- Turkish: The communication of gender in Turkish -- Notes on contributors -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series IMPACT:STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY.

Sommario/riassunto

1.Introduction  2. Gender in the Turkish language system  3. Covert gender - the semantics of terms without overt gender distinctions  3.1 Covert gender  3.2 Covert gender in context  3.3 Linguistic effects of



covert gender  4. Asymmetrical gender marking  5. The male-human ambiguity  5.1 Male = human  5.2 Human > male  6. Gender in Turkish proverbs  7. Gender in terms of abuse and verbal insults  8. Feminist language critique and linguistic change in Turkish  9. Conclusion  Notes References.