Gender Across Languages

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Heiko Motschenbacher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268860

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This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages whose gendered structures have received little or no academic attention in the past. Again, the collection includes a broad spectrum of languages: It contains languages with and without grammatical gender, a language with noun classification and a classifier language; larger national languages as well as smaller languages with minority status; and, of course, members of diverse language families, i.e. Indo-European as well as Finno-Ugrian, Iroquois, Tai-Kadai and Niger-Congo. The volume illustrates the tremendous variation found in the area of gender representation across languages. At the same time, it will provide the much-needed material required for an explicitly comparative approach to linguistic manifestations of gender.

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297662

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Gender Across Languages by Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann Pdf

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.

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298270

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Gender Across Languages by Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann Pdf

This is the first 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 its follow-up 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 1: Arabic, Belizean Creole, Eastern Maroon Creole, English (American, New Zealand, Australian), Hebrew, Indonesian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish.

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296818

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Gender Across Languages by Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann Pdf

This is the third 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 3: Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Oriya, Polish, Serbian, Swahili and Swedish.

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bussmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588110850

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Gender Across Languages by Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bussmann Pdf

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.

Author : Florence Maurice,Ursula Doleschal,Atiqa Hachimi,Geneviève Escure,Bettina Migge,Janet Holmes,Anne Pauwels,Suzanne Romaine,Yišay Tôbîn,Esther Kuntjara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1588110834

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Gender Across Languages by Florence Maurice,Ursula Doleschal,Atiqa Hachimi,Geneviève Escure,Bettina Migge,Janet Holmes,Anne Pauwels,Suzanne Romaine,Yišay Tôbîn,Esther Kuntjara Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1588110850

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Gender Across Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bussmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 1109 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9027218536

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Gender Across Languages by Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bussmann Pdf

This three-volume reference work 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 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 its follow-up 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 1: Arabic, Belizean Creole, Eastern Maroon Creole, English (American, New Zealand, Australian), Hebrew, Indonesian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish. Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh. Languages of Volume 3: Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Oriya, Polish, Serbian, Swahili and Swedish.

Author : Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1109 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9027218528

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Gender Across Languages by Marlis Hellinger,Hadumod Bußmann Pdf

This three-volume reference work 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 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 its follow-up 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 1" Arabic, Belizean Creole, Eastern Maroon Creole, English (American, New Zealand, Australian), Hebrew, Indonesian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish."Languages of Volume 2" Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh."Languages of Volume 3" Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Oriya, Polish, Serbian, Swahili and Swedish.

Author : Francesca Di Garbo , Bruno Olsson , Bernhard Wälchli
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961101788

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Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity I by Francesca Di Garbo , Bruno Olsson , Bernhard Wälchli Pdf

The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. In addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, volume one contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia. This volume is complemented by volume two, which consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity.

Author : Eva-Maria Thüne,Simona Leonardi,Carla Bazzanella
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826432186

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Gender, Language and New Literacy by Eva-Maria Thüne,Simona Leonardi,Carla Bazzanella Pdf

A cutting-edge research book that internationally examines cross-cultural research on gender as it is lexically and socially categorized in electronic media >

Author : Yousif Elhindi,Theresa McGarry
Publisher : Common Ground Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1612292224

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Gender-Linked Variation Across Languages by Yousif Elhindi,Theresa McGarry Pdf

Author : Stela Manova,Laura Grestenberger,Katharina Korecky-Kröll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110792874

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Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains by Stela Manova,Laura Grestenberger,Katharina Korecky-Kröll Pdf

This volume addresses a number of issues in current morphological theory from the point of view of diminutive formation, such as the role of phonology in diminutives and hypocoristics and consequently its place in the overall architecture of grammar, i.e. phonology-first versus syntax/morphology-first theoretical analyses, diminutives in the L1 acquisition of typologically diverse languages, and the borrowing of non-diminutive morphology for the expression of diminutive meanings, among others. Among the peculiarities of diminutive morphology discussed are the relation between diminutives and mass nouns, the avoidance of diminutives in plural contexts in some languages, and the relatively frequent semantic bleaching and reanalysis of diminutive forms cross-linguistically. Special attention is paid to the debate on the head versus modifier status of diminutive affixes (corresponding to high versus low diminutives in alternative analyses), with data from spoken and sign languages. Overall, the volume addresses a number of topics that will be of interest to scholars of almost all linguistic subfields and per

Author : Alan Garnham,Jane Oakhill,Lisa von Stockhausen,Sabine Sczesny
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Science (General)
ISBN : 9782889198924

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Language, Cognition and Gender by Alan Garnham,Jane Oakhill,Lisa von Stockhausen,Sabine Sczesny Pdf

Gender inequality remains an issue of high relevance, and controversy, in society. Previous research shows that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Gender-related information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical category of gender, through gender-related connotations of role names (e.g., manager, secretary), and through customs of denoting social groups with derogatory vs. neutral names. Both as a formal system and as a means of communication, language passively reflects culture-specific social conditions. In active use it can also be used to express and, potentially, perpetuate those conditions. The questions addressed in the contributions to this Frontiers Special Topic include: • how languages shape the cognitive representations of gender • how features of languages correspond with gender equality in different societies • how language contributes to social behaviour towards the sexes • how gender equality can be promoted through strategies for gender-fair language use These questions are explored both developmentally (across the life span from childhood to old age) and in adults. The contributions present work conducted across a wide range of languages, including some studies that make cross-linguistic comparisons. Among the contributors are both cognitive and social psychologists and linguists, all with an excellent research standing. The studies employ a wide range of empirical methods: from surveys to electro-physiology. The papers in the Special Topic present a wide range of complimentary studies, which will make a substantial contribution to understanding in this important area.

Author : Heiko Motschenbacher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273154

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An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000–2011) by Heiko Motschenbacher Pdf

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art bibliography documents the most recent research activity in the vibrant field of language, gender and sexuality. It provides experts in the field and students in tertiary education with access to language-centred resources on gender and sexuality and is, therefore, an ideal research companion. The main part of the bibliography lists 3,454 relevant publications (monographs, edited volumes, journal articles and contributions to edited volumes) that have been published within the period from 2000 to 2011. It unites work done in linguistics with that of neighbouring disciplines, covering studies dealing with a broad range of languages and cultures around the globe. Alphabetical listing and a keyword index facilitate finding relevant work by author and subject matter. The e-book version additionally enables users to search the entire document for specific terms. Sections on earlier bibliographies and general reference works on language, gender and sexuality complete the compilation.