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Gender Across Languages: Volume 4
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 36] 2015
► pp. 1–25

Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men

| University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
| University of Munich, Germany
Published online: 9 April 2015
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