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Gender across languages : the linguistic representation of women and men / edited by Marlis Hellinger, Hadumod Bussmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Impact, studies in language and society ; 9.
- Impact, studies in language and society, 1385-7908 ; v. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Gender.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2001-
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612162572
- 9781282162570
- 1282162578
- 9789027298270
- 9027298270
- OCLC:
- 632794288
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