Gender in world Englishes / edited by Tobias Bernaisch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernaisch, Tobias, editor.

Series:

Studies in English language.

Studies in English language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Sex differences.

English language.

Corpora (Linguistics).

English language--Variation.

English language--Gender.

English language--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

How do women and men from around the world really speak English? Using examples from World Englishes in Africa, America, Asia, Britain and the Caribbean, this book explores the degree of variation based on gender, in native-, second- and foreign-language varieties. Each chapter is rooted in a particular set of linguistic corpora, and combines authentic records of speakers with state-of-the-art statistical modelling. It gives empirically reliable evaluations of the impact of gender on linguistic choices in the context of other (socio-)linguistic factors, such as age or speaker status, under consideration of local social realities. It analyses linguistic phenomena traditionally associated with genderlectal research, such as hedges, intensifiers or quotatives, as well as those associated with World Englishes, like the dative or genitive alternation. A truly innovative approach to the subject, this book is essential reading for researchers and advanced students with an interest in language, gender and World Englishes.

Contents:

Introduction: Genderlectal variation in the English speaking world Localisation, globalisation and gender in discourse-pragmatic variation in Ghanaian English Sociolinguistic variation in intensifier usage in Indian and British English : gender and language in the inner and outer circle Tag questions and gender in Indian English Hedges and gender in the inner and expanding circle The role of gender in postcolonial syntactic choice-making : evidence from the genitive alternation in British and Sri Lankan English Social constraints on syntactic variation : the role of gender in Jamaican English ditransitive constructions Linguistic colloquialisation, democratisation and gender in Asian Englishes Gender, writing and editing in South African Englishes : a case study of the genitive alternation

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-59813-7

1-108-75580-1

1-108-69673-2

OCLC:

1155487946