Grammatical gender in interaction : cultural and cognitive aspects / By Angeliki Alvanoudi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvanoudi, Angeliki, author.

Series:

Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; v. 9.

Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language, Modern--Grammar.

Greek language, Modern.

Greek language, Modern--Noun.

Greek language, Modern--Noun phrase.

Greek language--Sex differences.

Greek language.

Greek language, Modern--Psychological aspects.

Psychological aspects.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun phrase.

Physical Description:

xiv, 197 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

In Grammatical Gender in Interaction: Cultural and Cognitive Aspects Angeliki Alvanoudi explores the relation between grammatical gender in person reference, culture and cognition in Modern Greek conversation. The author investigates the cultural and cognitive aspects of grammatical gender, by drawing on feminist sociolinguistic and non-linguistic approaches, cognitive linguistics, research on linguistic relativity, studies on person reference in interaction and conversation analysis. The study presented in this book shows that the use of grammatical gender contributes to the routine achievement of sociocultural gender in interaction and that grammatical gender guides speakers' thinking of referents as female or male at the time of speaking. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Contextualizing the Problem 1

1.2 On Grammatical Gender and Culture 4

1.3 On Grammatical Gender and Cognition 6

1.4 Summary of the Argument to be Presented in the Book 8

2 Grammatical Gender 13

2.1 Introduction 13

2.2 Noun Classes or Genders 13

2.3 Grammatical Gender in Modem Greek 19

2.4 Grammatical Gender and Reference: Preliminary Remarks 26

2.5 Summary 31

3 Grammatical Gender and the Intersection of Sociocultural Gender/Sex 32

3.1 Introduction 32

3.2 The Intersection of Gender/Sex in Feminist Theory 33

3.3 Cultural Aspects of Grammatical Gender: The Perspective of Linguistics 36

3.3.1 Grammatical Gender and the Construction of Gender Identities 37

3.3.2 Grammatical Gender and the Maintenance of Gender Hierarchy 40

3.4 Cultural Aspects of Grammatical Gender: The Perspective of Feminist Non-Linguistic Theories 47

3.5 Summary 50

4 Grammatical Gender and Speakers' Cognition 52

4.1 Introduction 52

4.2 Cognitive Aspects of Grammatical Gender 52

4.2.1 Grammatical Gender and Conceptual Categorization 52

4.2.2 Grammatical Gender and the Linguistic Mediation of Thought 59

4.3 Indications of the Cognitive Role of Grammatical Gender: Empirical Studies 65

4.4 Summary 71

5 Grammatical Gender, Culture and Cognition in Interaction 72

5.1 The Research Question 72

5.2 Grammatical Gender and Person Reference in Interaction 74

5.2.1 Indexing Gender: The Role of Grammatical Gender 79

5.2.2 The Generic Use of the Masculine Gender and Default Inferences 81

5.3 Approaching Grammatical Gender in Interaction through the Lens of Conversation Analysis 84

5.3.1 Gender Membership Categories and Grammatical Gender 88

6 The Empirical Investigation of Grammatical Gender in Interaction 92

6.1 Introduction 92

6.2 The Routine Achievement of Sociocultural Gender in Interaction: The Role of Grammatical Gender 95

6.2.1 Self-reference and Grammatical Gender 95

6.2.2 Reference to Recipient(s) and Grammatical Gender 106

6.2.3 Reference to Third Person(s) and Grammatical Gender 111

6.2.4 Grammatical Gender and the Relevance of Sociocultural Gender 116

6.2.5 The Non-match between Grammatical Gender and Referents' Sex 123

6.2.6 Conclusions 128

6.3 Indications of the Cognitive Role of Grammatical Gender in Interaction 129

6.3.1 Repair: Introductory Remarks 129

6.3.2 Grammatical Gender as an Item of Repair 133

6.3.3 Other Indications 154

6.3.4 Conclusions 164

7 What Can We Conclude? 166

7.1 'Thinking for Speaking" in Interaction 166

7.2 Sexism in Interaction: Fact or Fiction? 168

7.3 Reconsidering Gender Performativity 171

7.4 Grammatical Gender in Interaction: A Summary 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004283145

9004283145

OCLC:

900438255