Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation Of Women And Men. Volume 1 (impact: Studies In Language, Culture And Society)

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 indexical material. Languages of Volume 1: Arabic, Belizean Creole, Eastern Maroon Creole, English (American, New Zealand, Australian), Hebrew, Indonesian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish. Volume 1. -- The Linguistic Representation Of Women And Men -- Marlis Hellinger And Hadumond Bussman -- Shifting Sands: Language And Gender In Moroccan Arabic / Atiqa Hachimi -- Belizean Creole: Gender, Creole, And The Role Of Women In Language Change / Genevieve Escure -- Communicating Gender In The Easter Maroon Creole Of Suriname / Bettina Migge -- English -- Gender In A Global Language / Marlis Hellinger -- A Corpus-based View Of Gender In New Zealand / Janet Holmes -- Spreading The Feminist Work: The Case Of The New Courtesy Title Ms In Australian English / Anne Pauwels -- A Corpus-based View Of Gender In British And American English / Suzanne Romaine -- Gender Switch In Modern Hebrew / Yishai Tobin -- Gender In Javanes Indonesian / Esther Kuntjara -- Deconstructing Gender -- The Case Of Romanian / Fforence Maurice -- Doing Gender In Russian: Structure And Perspective / Ursula Doleschal And Sonja Schmid -- The Communication Of Gender In Turkish / Friederike Braun. Volume 2. -- The Linguistic Representation Of Women And Men / Marlis Hellinger And Hadumod Bussmann -- In Chinese, Men And Women Are Equal -or-women And Men Are Equal? / Charles Ettner -- Gender-related Use Of Sentence-final Particles In Cantonese / Marjorie K.m. Chan -- Reality And Representation: Social Control And Gender Relations In Mandarin Chinese Proverbs / Hong Zhang -- Towards A More Gender-fair Usage In Natherlands Dutch / Marinel Gerritsen -- The Communication Of Gender In Finnish / Mila Engelberg -- Unnatural Gender In Hindi / Kira Hall -- Masculine Generics In Current Icelandic / Anna Gunnarsdotter Gronberg -- Gender And Female Visibility In Italian / Gianna Marcato And Eva-maria Thune -- The Representation Of Gender In Norwegian /tove Bull And Toril Swan -- Gender In Spanish: Tradition And Innovation / Uwe Kjoer Nissen -- Gender In Addressing And Self-reference In Vietnamese: Variation And Change / Hoa Pham -- The Politics Of Language And Gender In Wales / Gwenllian Awbery, Kathryn Jones And Delyth Morris. Volume 3. The Linguistic Representation Of Women And Men / Marlis Hellinger And Hadumod Bussmann -- Communciating Gender In Czech / Svetla Cmerjrkova -- Equal Before The Law -- Unequal In Language / Mirsten Gomard And Mette Kunoe -- Gender In French: Structural Properties, Incongruences And Asymmetries / Elmar Schafroth -- Gender And Language Politics In France / Elisabeth Burr -- Engendering Female Visibility In German / Hadumod Bussmann And Marlis Hellinger -- Women, Gender And Modern Greek / Theodossia-soula Pavlidou -- Gendered Structures In Japanese / Janet S. Shibamoto Smith -- Women's Language As A Group Identity Marker In Japanese / Schiko Ide -- Linguistic And Socio-cultural Implications Of Gendered Structures In Oriya / Kalyanamalini Sahoo -- Language And Gender In Polish / Gabriela Koniuszniec And Hank Blaxzkowska -- The Expression Of Gender In Serbian /elke Hentschel -- Perceptions Of Gender In Swahili Language And Society / Rose Marie Beck -- Linguistic And Public Attitudes Towards Gender In Swedish / Antje Hornscheidt. Volume 4. The Linguistic Representation Of Women And Men / Marlis Hellinger And Hadumod Bussman -- Some New Perspectives On Gendered Language Structures / Heiko Motschenbacher -- Structural Gender Trouble In Croatian / Heiko Motschenbacher And Marija Weikert -- Gender In A Planned Language : Esperanto / Sabine Fiedler -- The Representation Of Gender In Estonian / Cornelius Hasselblatt -- Probing The Manifestations Of Gender In Ga / Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey -- Gender In Swiss German / Helen Christen And Daniel Elmiger -- Gender Trouble In A Grammatically Genderless Language : Hungarian / Louise O. Vasvári -- The Linguistic Representation And Communication Of Gender In Igbo / Arua E. Arua -- Gender In Kurdish : Structural And Socio-cultural Dimensions / Geoffrey Haig And Ergin Öpengin -- Gender In Oneida / Karin Michelson -- Gender In Portuguese / Annette Endruschat -- Gender In Slovenian / Ursula Doleschal -- The Linguistic Representation Of Gender In Thai / Korakoch Attaviriyanupap. Edited By Marlis Hellinger, Hadumod Bussmann. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Languages of Volume II......Page 8 Languages of Volume III......Page 9 Preface......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 List of abbreviations......Page 14 Gender across languages......Page 16 Arabic: Shifting sands......Page 42 Belizean Creole: Belizean Creole: Gender, creole, and the role of women in language change......Page 68 Eastern Maroon Creole: Communicating gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname......Page 100 English: English – Gender in a global language......Page 120 English: A corpus-based view of gender in New Zealand English......Page 130 English: Spreading the feminist word......Page 152 English: A corpus-based view of gender in British and American English......Page 168 Hebrew: Gender switch in Modern Hebrew......Page 192 Indonesian: Gender in Javanese Indonesian......Page 214 Romanian: Deconstructing gender – The case of Romania......Page 244 Russian: Doing gender in Russian......Page 268 Turkish: The communication of gender in Turkish......Page 298 Notes on contributors......Page 326 Name index......Page 332 Subject index......Page 338 The series IMPACT:STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY......Page 344 1. Introduction2. Gender in the Turkish language system3. Covert gender - the semantics of terms without overt gender distinctions 3.1 Covert gender 3.2 Covert gender in context 3.3 Linguistic effects of covert gender4. Asymmetrical gender marking5. The male-human ambiguity 5.1 Male = human 5.2 Human> male6. Gender in Turkish proverbs7. Gender in terms of abuse and verbal insults8. Feminist language critique and linguistic change in Turkish9. ConclusionNotesReferences