Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins
Edited by Julie Abbou and Fabienne H. Baider
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 264] 2016. vi, 411 pp.
Julie Abbou
List of John Benjamins publications for which Julie Abbou plays a role.
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Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2016 A hermeneutical approach to gender linguistic materiality: Semiotic
and structural categorisation of gender in Hong Kong Cantonese Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins, Abbou, Julie and Fabienne H. Baider (eds.), pp. 89–128 | Article
While most Cantonese grammar textbooks draw on the assumption that
gender is absent in this language, the fact, however, remains that the masculine/
feminine relationship – and its consequential social assignation – is indeed
expressed in it. This study explores how and where gender is indexed
in… read more
2016 Periphery, gender, language: An introduction Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins, Abbou, Julie and Fabienne H. Baider (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article