Gender Across Languages

432 Pages·2015·1.85 MB·English

by  Marlis Hellinger (ed.)

Gender Across Languages
IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society
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General Editor
Ana Deumert
University of Cape Town
Advisory Board
Peter Auer Marlis Hellinger
University of Freiburg University of Frankfurt am Main
Jan Blommaert Elizabeth Lanza
Ghent University University of Oslo
Annick De Houwer William Labov
University of Erfurt University of Pennsylvania
J. Joseph Errington Peter L. Patrick
Yale University University of Essex
Anna Maria Escobar Jeanine Treffers-Daller
University of Illinois at Urbana University of the West of England
Guus Extra Victor Webb
Tilburg University University of Pretoria
Volume 36
Gender Across Languages. Volume 4
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher
Gender Across Languages
Volume 4
Edited by
Marlis Hellinger
Goethe University Frankfurt
Heiko Motschenbacher
Technical University of Braunschweig
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Gender Across Languages : The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 4 /
edited by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher.
p. cm. (IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society, issn 1385-7908 ; v. 36)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. Grammar, Comparative and general--Gender. I. Hellinger, Marlis.
II. Motschenbacher, Heiko. III. Impact, studies in language and society; 36.
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Table of contents
Languages of volume I, II and III vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
List of abbreviations xv
Gender across languages
The linguistic representation of women and men 1
Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
Some new perspectives on gendered language structures 27
Heiko Motschenbacher
CROATIAN
Structural gender trouble in Croatian 49
Heiko Motschenbacher and Marija Weikert
ESPERANTO
Gender in a planned language: Esperanto 97
Sabine Fiedler
ESTONIAN
The representation of gender in Estonian 125
Cornelius Hasselblatt
GA
Probing the manifestations of gender in Ga 153
Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey
GERMAN
Gender in Swiss German 173
Helen Christen and Daniel Elmiger
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HUNGARIAN
Gender trouble in a grammatically genderless language: Hungarian 203
Louise O. Vasvári
IGBO
The linguistic representation and communication of gender in Igbo 227
Arua E. Arua
KURDISH
Gender in Kurdish: Structural and socio-cultural dimensions 247
Geoffrey Haig and Ergin Öpengin
ONEIDA
Gender in Oneida 277
Karin Michelson
Portuguese
Gender in Portuguese 303
Annette Endruschat
SLOVENIAN
Gender in Slovenian 333
Ursula Doleschal
THAI
The linguistic representation of gender in Thai 369
Korakoch Attaviriyanupap
Notes on contributors 401
Subject index 407
Languages of Volume I
Arabic
Atiqa Hachimi
Belizean Creole
Geneviève Escure
Eastern Maroon Creole
Bettina Migge
English
Marlis Hellinger
Janet Holmes
Anne Pauwels
Suzanne Romaine
Hebrew
Yishai Tobin
Indonesian
Esther Kuntjara
Romanian
Florence Maurice
Russian
Ursula Doleschal and Sonja Schmid
Turkish
Friederike Braun
Languages of Volume II
Chinese
Marjorie K. M. Chan
Charles Ettner
Hong Zhang
Dutch
Marinel Gerritsen
Finnish
Mila Engelberg
Hindi
Kira Hall
Icelandic
Anna Gunnarsdotter Grönberg
Italian
Gianna Marcato and Eva-Maria Thüne
Norwegian
Tove Bull and Toril Swan
Spanish
Uwe Kjær Nissen
Vietnamese
Hoa Pham
Welsh
Gwenllian Awbery and Kathryn Jones and Delyth Morris
Languages of Volume III
Czech
Svetla Čmejrková
Danish
Kirsten Gomard and Mette Kunøe
French
Elisabeth Burr
Elmar Schafroth
German
Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
Greek
Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Japanese
Sachiko Ide
Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
Oriya
Kalyanamalini Sahoo
Polish
Gabriela Koniuszaniec and Hanka Błaszkowska
Serbian
Elke Hentschel
Swahili
Rose Marie Beck
Swedish
Antje Hornscheidt