Gender Across Languages
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Gender Across Languages
Hellinger, Marlis & Bussmann, Hadumod (eds.) (2001) Gender Across Languages. The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men, Volume I. (=Studies in Language and Society 9) John Benjamins
Another book about gender and language? Research on gender and language has seen considerable growth -- the number of books published in this field within the past two decades is enormous. Yet, not many of these publications offered new insights to this field of research. Gender Across Languages definitely does not belong to this category.
Gender Across Languages represents the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on the field of language and gender research. The aim of this book is to provide a systematic description of various classifications of gender within 30 different languages.
Among the analysed languages of Volume I are the following: Arabic, Belizean Creole, Eastern Maroon Creole, English (British, American, New Zealand, Australian), Hebrew, Indonesian, Romanian, Russian and Turkish. This listing conveys the successful effort of putting more focus on non-western languages within the research of gender and language. This volume provides the much-needed basis for comparative analyses of gender across languages. Due to this comparative paradigm all contributions follow a general outline which take the following questions into account:
* What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender?
* What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalization and word-formation?
* How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in language?
* Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics?
* Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men?
In answering these guideline questions the book is packed with examples/transcripts taken from recent research and presents considerable depth and breadth.
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.
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Another book about gender and language? Research on gender and language has seen considerable growth -- the number of books published in this field within the past two decades is enormous. Yet, not many of these publications offered new insights to this field of research. Gender Across Languages definitely does not belong to this category.
Gender Across Languages represents the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on the field of language and gender research. The aim of this book is to provide a systematic description of various classifications of gender within 30 different languages.
Among the analysed languages of Volume I are the following: Arabic, Belizean Creole, Eastern Maroon Creole, English (British, American, New Zealand, Australian), Hebrew, Indonesian, Romanian, Russian and Turkish. This listing conveys the successful effort of putting more focus on non-western languages within the research of gender and language. This volume provides the much-needed basis for comparative analyses of gender across languages. Due to this comparative paradigm all contributions follow a general outline which take the following questions into account:
* What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender?
* What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalization and word-formation?
* How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in language?
* Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics?
* Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men?
In answering these guideline questions the book is packed with examples/transcripts taken from recent research and presents considerable depth and breadth.
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.
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