Gender Across Languages : The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1.
Title:
Gender Across Languages : The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1.
Author:
Hellinger, Marlis.
ISBN:
9789027298270
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (343 pages)
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.
Abstract:
1.Introduction2. Gender in the Turkish language system3. 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 gender4. Asymmetrical gender marking5. The male-human ambiguity 5.1 Male = human 5.2 Human > male6. Gender in Turkish proverbs7. Gender in terms of abuse and verbal insults8. Feminist language critique and linguistic change in Turkish9. ConclusionNotesReferences.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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