Article published in:
Gender Across Languages: Volume 4
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 36] 2015
► pp. 227–246

The linguistic representation and communication of gender in Igbo

| University of Botswana, Botswana
Published online: 09 April 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.36.09aru
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