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Hedger, Joseph A. 2013. Reconstructing gender ideologies of English loanwords in Chinese. Language & Communication 33 (3) : 214–220.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper discusses how English loanwords, representing specific gender assignment aspects, appropriated into Chinese, have to be understood as ideologically affected nativization (i.e. Chinesization) processes, often reinforcing traditional gender ideologies.