Gender Across Languages
The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 2
Published on 10. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
349 pages
978-1-58811-085-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on "Gender across Languages", which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and the previous two volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58811-085-5 (9781588110855)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. Languages of Volume I and III; 2. Preface; 3. Acknowledgments; 4. List of abbreviations; 5. Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men (by Hellinger, Marlis); 6. Chinese. Editors' note; 7. Chinese. In Chinese, men and women are equal - or - women and men are equal? (by Ettner, Charles); 8. Chinese. Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese (by Chan, Marjorie K.M.); 9. Chinese. Reality and representation: Social control and gender relations in Mandarin Chinese proverbs (by Zhang, Hong); 10. Dutch. Towards a more gender-fair usage in Netherlands Dutch (by Gerritsen, Marinel); 11. Finnish. The communication of gender in Finnish (by Engelberg, Mila); 12. Hindi. "Unnatural" gender in Hindi (by Hall, Kira); 13. Icelandic. Masculine generics in current Icelandic (by Gronberg, Anna Gunnarsdotter); 14. Italian. Gender and female visibility in Italian (by Marcato, Gianna); 15. Norwegian. The representation of gender in Norwegian (by Bull, Tove); 16. Spanish. Gender in Spanish: Tradition and innovation (by Nissen, Uwe Kjaer); 17. Vietnamese. Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese: Variation and change (by Pham, Hoa); 18. Welsh. The politics of language and gender in Wales (by Awbery, Gwenllian M.); 19. Notes on contributors; 20. Name index; 21. Subject index