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"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."

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Author:   Marlis Hellinger (University of Frankfurt) ,  Hadumod Bußmann (University of Munich)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   9
Weight:   0.605kg
ISBN:  

9781588110831

ISBN 10:   1588110834
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   09 October 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English & Multiple languages

Table of Contents

1. Languages of Volume II 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. Arabic. Shifting sands: Language and gender in Moroccan Arabic (by Hachimi, Atiqa); 7. Belizean Creole. Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change (by Escure, Genevieve); 8. Eastern Maroon Creole. Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina); 9. English. Gender in a global language (by Hellinger, Marlis); 10. English. A corpus-based view of gender in New Zealand (by Holmes, Janet); 11. English. Spreading the feminist word: The case of the new courtesy title Ms in Australian English (by Pauwels, Anne); 12. English. A corpus-based view of gender in British and American English (by Romaine, Suzanne); 13. Hebrew. Gender switch in Modern Hebrew (by Tobin, Yishai); 14. Indonesian. Gender in Javanese Indonesian (by Kuntjara, Esther); 15. Romanian. Deconstructing gender - The case of Romanian (by Maurice, Florence); 16. Russian. Doing gender in Russian: Structure and perspective (by Doleschal, Ursula); 17. Turkish. The communication of gender in Turkish (by Braun, Friederike); 18. Notes on contributors; 19. Name index; 20. Subject index

Reviews

This book makes significant contributions to current research on gender and language and serves as a comprehensive guide to central issues in this field. This publication is rounded off by rich bibliographical and indexical material. -- Tamara Faschingbauer, Philipps-University Marburg in LINGUIST List: Vol-13-462, 2002

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