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Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1 (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society) by Marlis Hellinger (ed.), Hadumod Bußmann (ed.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which 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 a 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 indexi

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Author
Marlis Hellinger (ed.), Hadumod Bußmann (ed.)
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9781588110831
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction

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