Publications

Publication details [#53232]

Muchnik, Malka. 2010. Gender stereotypes in the language of Be my knife by David Grossman. Text & Talk 30 (5) : 553–570.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | language use | novel | standard1 | stereotype

Language as a subject

Hebrew

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how the novel 'Be my knife', written by the Israeli author David Grossman, perpetuates gender stereotypes in general and regarding language use, the women (unlike men) depicted as employing prestigious, standard and precise language.