Full Description
This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages whose gendered structures have received little or no academic attention in the past. Again, the collection includes a broad spectrum of languages: It contains languages with and without grammatical gender, a language with noun classification and a classifier language; larger national languages as well as smaller languages with minority status; and, of course, members of diverse language families, i.e. Indo-European as well as Finno-Ugrian, Iroquois, Tai-Kadai and Niger-Congo. The volume illustrates the tremendous variation found in the area of gender representation across languages. At the same time, it will provide the much-needed material required for an explicitly comparative approach to linguistic manifestations of gender.
Contents
1. Languages of volume I, II and III; 2. Preface; 3. Acknowledgements; 4. List of abbreviations; 5. Gender across languages; 6. Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men (by Hellinger, Marlis); 7. Gender across languages; 8. Some new perspectives on gendered language structures (by Motschenbacher, Heiko); 9. Croatian; 10. Structural gender trouble in Croatian (by Motschenbacher, Heiko); 11. ESPERANTO; 12. Gender in a planned language: Esperanto (by Fiedler, Sabine); 13. Estonian; 14. The representation of gender in Estonian (by Hasselblatt, Cornelius); 15. Ga; 16. Probing the manifestations of gender in Ga (by Lomotey, Benedicta Adokarley); 17. GERMAN; 18. Gender in Swiss German (by Christen, Helen); 19. Hungarian; 20. Gender trouble in a grammatically genderless language: Hungarian (by Vasvari, Louise O.); 21. Igbo; 22. The linguistic representation and communication of gender in Igbo (by Arua, Arua E.); 23. Kurdish; 24. Gender in Kurdish: Structural and socio-cultural dimensions (by Haig, Geoffrey L.J.); 25. Oneida; 26. Gender in Oneida (by Michelson, Karin); 27. Portuguese; 28. Gender in Portuguese (by Endruschat, Annette); 29. Slovenian; 30. Gender in Slovenian (by Doleschal, Ursula); 31. Thai; 32. The linguistic representation of gender in Thai (by Attaviriyanupap, Korakoch); 33. Notes on contributors; 34. Subject index
