Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Phonetic Symbols -- List of Abbreviations -- Transcription Conventions -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Contextualizing the Problem -- On Grammatical Gender and Culture -- On Grammatical Gender and Cognition -- Summary of the Argument to be Presented in the Book -- Chapter 2 Grammatical Gender -- Introduction -- Noun Classes or Genders -- Grammatical Gender in Modern Greek -- Grammatical Gender and Reference: Preliminary Remarks -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Grammatical Gender and the Intersection of Sociocultural Gender/Sex -- Introduction -- The Intersection of Gender/Sex in Feminist Theory -- Cultural Aspects of Grammatical Gender: The Perspective of Linguistics -- Grammatical Gender and the Construction of Gender Identities -- Grammatical Gender and the Maintenance of Gender Hierarchy -- Cultural Aspects of Grammatical Gender: The Perspective of Feminist Non-Linguistic Theories -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Grammatical Gender and Speakers' Cognition -- Introduction -- Cognitive Aspects of Grammatical Gender -- Grammatical Gender and Conceptual Categorization -- Grammatical Gender and the Linguistic Mediation of Thought -- Indications of the Cognitive Role of Grammatical Gender: Empirical Studies -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Grammatical Gender, Culture and Cognition in Interaction -- The Research Question -- Grammatical Gender and Person Reference in Interaction -- Indexing Gender: The Role of Grammatical Gender -- The Generic Use of the Masculine Gender and Default Inferences -- Approaching Grammatical Gender in Interaction through the Lens of Conversation Analysis -- Gender Membership Categories and Grammatical Gender -- Chapter 6 The Empirical Investigation of Grammatical Gender in Interaction -- Introduction -- The Routine Achievement of Sociocultural Gender in Interaction: The Role of Grammatical Gender.

Self-reference and Grammatical Gender -- Reference to Recipient(s) and Grammatical Gender -- Reference to Third Person(s) and Grammatical Gender -- Grammatical Gender and the Relevance of Sociocultural Gender -- The Non-match between Grammatical Gender and Referents' Sex -- Conclusions -- Indications of the Cognitive Role of Grammatical Gender in Interaction -- Repair: Introductory Remarks -- Grammatical Gender as an Item of Repair -- Other Indications -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7 What Can We Conclude? -- 'Thinking for Speaking' in Interaction -- Sexism in Interaction: Fact or Fiction? -- Reconsidering Gender Performativity -- Grammatical Gender in Interaction: A Summary -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.