Gender Across Languages

The linguistic representation of women and men

3 Volumes (set)

Editors
Marlis Hellinger | University of Frankfurt
Hadumod Bußmann | University of Munich
HardboundAvailable
ISBN 9789027218520 (Eur) | EUR 360.00
ISBN 9781588113177 (USA) | USD 540.00
 
PaperbackAvailable
ISBN 9789027218537 (Eur) | EUR 118.00
ISBN 9781588113184 (USA) | USD 177.00
This three-volume reference work provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: 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, pronominalisation 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? This volume (and its follow-up volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.

Languages of Volume 1: Arabic, Belizean Creole, Eastern Maroon Creole, English (American, New Zealand, Australian), Hebrew, Indonesian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish.

Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.

Languages of Volume 3: Czech, Danish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Oriya, Polish, Serbian, Swahili and Swedish.

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 9-11] 2003.  xiv, 329 pp. & xiv, 349 pp. & xiv, 391 pp.
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