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  • Titel: Gender across languages : the linguistic representation of women and men / edited by Marlis Hellinger (Goethe University Frankfurt), Heiko Motschenbacher (Technical University of Braunschweig)
    Volume 4
  • Beteiligte: Hellinger, Marlis [HerausgeberIn]; Motschenbacher, Heiko [HerausgeberIn]
  • Erschienen: Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
  • Erschienen in: Gender across languages / edited by Marlis Hellinger (Goethe University Frankfurt), Heiko Motschenbacher (Technical University of Braunschweig) ; 4
    Impact ; 36
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 415 Seiten)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1075/impact.36
  • ISBN: 9789027268860
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  • Schlagwörter: Grammar, Comparative and general--Gender. ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • Anmerkungen: Literaturangaben
  • Beschreibung: Gender Across Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Languages of volume I, II and III -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- The linguistic representation of women and men: An overview -- 1. Aims and scope of "Gender across languages" -- 2. Gender classes as a special case of noun classes -- 3. Categories of gender -- 4. Gender-related structures -- 5. Gender-related messages -- 6. Language change and language reform -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Some new perspectives on gendered language structures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structural gender linguistics - A marginalised field? -- 3. Developments in structural gender linguistics -- 4. Central insights from the languages of this volume -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Structural gender trouble in Croatian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories of gender -- 3. Gender-related structures -- 4. Usage of personal reference forms -- 5. Language change and language reform -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Gender in a planned language: Esperanto -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender-related structures -- 3. Language reform -- 4. Gender in Esperanto proverbs -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The representation of gender in Estonian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories of gender -- 3. Gender-related structures -- 4. Usage of personal reference forms -- 5. Language change and language reform -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Probing the manifestations of gender in Ga -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories of gender in Ga -- 3. Gendered structures -- 4. Usage of personal nouns -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Gender in Swiss German -- 1. Swiss German -- 2. Categories of gender -- 3. Gender-related structures -- 4. Usage of personal reference forms -- 5. Language planning and non-sexist language

    6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Gender trouble in a grammatically genderless language: Hungarian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories of gender -- 2.1 Lexical and referential gender -- 2.2 Social gender -- 2.3 Male-specific and generic ember 'man' -- 3. Gender-related structures -- 3.1 Compounding -- 3.2 Pronominalization -- 4. Usage of personal reference forms -- 4.1 Naming conventions and courtesy titles -- 4.2 Address terms -- 4.3 Idioms, proverbs and obscene expressions -- 5. Language change and language reform -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The linguistic representation and communication of gender in Igbo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories of gender -- 3. Gender-related structures -- 4. Usage of personal reference forms -- 5. Language change and reform -- 6. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Gender in Kurdish: Structural and socio-cultural dimensions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories of gender -- 3. Gender-related structures -- 4. Usage of personal reference forms -- 5. Language change: Public discourse on gender in language -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Gender in Oneida -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Person, number and gender prefixes on verbs and nouns -- 3. Categories of gender in Oneida -- 4. The feminine-zoic -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Gender in Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories of gender -- 3. Gender-related structures -- 4. Usage of personal reference forms -- 5. Language change and language reform -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Gender in Slovenian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories of gender -- 3. Gender-related structures -- 4. Usage of personal reference forms -- 5. Language change and language reform -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The linguistic representation of gender in Thai -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories of gender -- 3. Gender-related structures

    4. Usage of personal reference forms -- 5. Particles and interjections -- 6. The linguistic representation of the third gender -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Notes on contributors -- Subject index