Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men

406 Pages·2003·4.11 MB·English

by  Marlis Hellinger (ed.)

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GenderAcrossLanguages
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Generaleditor
AnnickDeHouwer
UniversityofAntwerp
Advisoryboard
UlrichAmmon WilliamLabov
GerhardMercatorUniversity UniversityofPennsylvania
LaurieBauer ElizabethLanza
VictoriaUniversityofWellington UniversityofOslo
JanBlommaert JosephLoBianco
GhentUniversity TheAustralianNationalUniversity
PaulDrew PeterNelde
UniversityofYork CatholicUniversityBrussels
AnnaEscobar DennisPreston
UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana MichiganStateUniversity
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TilburgUniversity UniversityoftheWestofEngland
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SanDiegoStateUniversity UniversityofPretoria
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UniversityCollegeLondon
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GenderAcrossLanguages:Thelinguisticrepresentationofwomenandmen
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Gender Across Languages
The linguistic representation
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volume 3
Edited by
Marlis Hellinger
UniversityofFrankfurtamMain
Hadumod Bußmann
UniversityofMunich
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Table of contents
LanguagesofvolumeIandII vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Listofabbreviations xiii
genderacrosslanguages
Thelinguisticrepresentationofwomenandmen 1
MarlisHellingerandHadumodBußmann
czech
CommunicatinggenderinCzech 27
SvˇetlaCˇmejrková
danish
Equalbeforethelaw–unequalinlanguage 59
KirstenGomardandMetteKunøe
french
GenderinFrench:Structuralproperties,incongruencesand
asymmetries 87
ElmarSchafroth
GenderandlanguagepoliticsinFrance 119
ElisabethBurr
german
EngenderingfemalevisibilityinGerman 141
HadumodBußmannandMarlisHellinger
greek
Women,genderandModernGreek 175
Theodossia-SoulaPavlidou
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japanese
GenderedstructuresinJapanese 201
JanetS.ShibamotoSmith
Women’slanguageasagroupidentitymarkerinJapanese 227
SachikoIde
oriya
Linguisticandsocio-culturalimplicationsofgenderedstructures
inOriya 239
KalyanamaliniSahoo
polish
LanguageandgenderinPolish 259
GabrielaKoniuszaniecandHankaBłaszkowska
serbian
TheexpressionofgenderinSerbian 287
ElkeHentschel
swahili
PerceptionsofgenderinSwahililanguageandsociety 311
RoseMarieBeck
swedish
LinguisticandpublicattitudestowardsgenderinSwedish 339
AntjeHornscheidt
Notesoncontributors 369
Nameindex 375
Subjectindex 383
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Languages of Volume I
Arabic
AtiqaHachimi
BelizeanCreole
GenevièveEscure
EasternMaroonCreole
BettinaMigge
English
MarlisHellinger
JanetHolmes
AnnePauwels
SuzanneRomaine
Hebrew
YishaiTobin
Indonesian
EstherKuntjara
Romanian
FlorenceMaurice
Russian
UrsulaDoleschalandSonjaSchmid
Turkish
FriederikeBraun
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Languages of Volume II
Chinese
CharlesEttner
MarjorieK.M.Chan
HongZhang
Dutch
MarinelGerritsen
Finnish
MilaEngelberg
Hindi
KiraHall
Icelandic
AnnaGunnarsdotterGrönberg
Italian
GiannaMarcatoandEva-MariaThüne
Norwegian
ToveBullandTorilSwan
Spanish
UweKjærNissen
Vietnamese
HoaPham
Welsh
GwenllianAwberyandKathrynJonesandDelythMorris
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Preface
TheseriesGenderacrosslanguagesisanongoingprojectwithpotentialfollow-up
publications.Ourmaingoalhasbeentoprovideacomprehensivecollectionofin-
depthdescriptionsofgender-relatedissuesinlanguageswithverydiversestructur-
alfoundationsandsocio-culturalbackgrounds.Theprojectisdesignedtohavean
explicitcontrastiveorientationinthatbasicallythesameissuesarediscussedfor
eachlanguagewithinthesameterminologicalandmethodologicalframework.
This framework, whose central notion is, of course, the multidimensional
conceptof“gender”,isdiscussedintheintroductorychapterof“Genderacross
languages–Thelinguisticrepresentationofwomenandmen”.Carehasbeen
takennottoimposeanarrowwesternperspectiveonotherlanguages.
Thisisthethirdofthreevolumeswhichcompriseatotalofthirtylanguages:
(Moroccan)Arabic,BelizeanCreole,Chinese,Czech,Danish, Dutch,Eastern
Maroon Creole, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi,
Icelandic,Indonesian,Italian,Japanese,Norwegian,Oriya,Polish,Romanian,
Russian,Serbian,Spanish,Swahili,Swedish,Turkish,Vietnamese,andWelsh.
Allcontributionswerespecificallywrittenforthisproject,inclosecollaboration
with the editors over a period of four years. Unfortunately, a few languages
(Bulgarian, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese, and one Native American lan-
guage)droppedoutoftheprojectforvariousreasons.Theselanguagesshould
beincludedinapotentialfuturevolume.
Thebasisonwhichparticularlanguagesshouldbebroughttogetherinone
volumehasbeenaproblematiconetodefine.Ratherthancategorizinglanguag-
esaccordingtolanguagefamily(areal,typologicalorhistorical),oraccording
towhetherthelanguagehasordoesnothavegrammaticalgender,orusingan
overallalphabeticalordering,wedecided–inagreementwiththepublisher–
thateachvolumeshouldcontainabalancedselectionoflanguages,sothateach
volume will provide readers with sufficientmaterial to illustrate the diversity
andcomplexityoflinguisticrepresentationsofgenderacrosslanguages.Thus,
eachvolumewillcontainboth,languageswithgrammaticalgenderaswellas
“genderless” languages, and languages with different areal, typological and
historicalaffiliations.