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Gender Across Languages : The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 2.
Title:
Gender Across Languages : The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 2.
Author:
Hellinger, Marlis.
ISBN:
9789027297662
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (363 pages)
Contents:
Gender Across Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Languages of Volume I -- Languages of Volume III -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Gender across languages -- Chinese: Editors' note -- Chinese: In Chinese, men and women are equal - or - women and men are equal? -- Chinese: Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese -- Chinese: Reality and representation -- Dutch: Towards a more gender-fair usage in Netherlands Dutch -- Finnish: The communication of gender in Finnish -- Hindi: "Unnatural" gender in Hindi* -- Icelandic: Masculine generics in current Icelandic* -- Italian: Gender and female visibility in Italian -- Norwegian: The representation of gender in Norwegian -- Spanish: Gender in Spanish -- Vietnamese: Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese -- Welsh: The politics of language and gender in Wales -- Notes on contributors -- Name index -- Subject index -- IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society.
Abstract:
1.Introduction2. Welsh versus English: Language shift and the struggle for legitimacy in the public domain3. Selected structural properties of the Welsh language 3.1 Grammatical gender and referential gender 3.2 The pronoun system 3.3 Generic masculines4. Bringing the language and gender debate to centre stage5. Guidelines for non-discriminatory language use6. The ongoing debateNotesReferences.
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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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