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Gender, language and the periphery : grammatical and social gender from the margins /
This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implications for a political analysis of language structures, language uses and linguistic resistances. All of the 12 chapters included in this volume work on under...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gender, Language and the Periphery; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Periphery, gender, language: An introduction ; 1. From centre to margin; 2. Minor phenomena and minorisation: The structure in question; 2.1 Theorising the minor; 2.2 Structure, meaning and power; 2.3 Gender structures and linguistic structures; 3. De-territorialising and decolonising linguistics; 3.1 De-territorialising linguistics; 3.2 Decolonising linguistics; 3.3 Toward a transversal methodology; 4. Undoing grammatical gender; 5. Intersectional peripheries; 6. Conclusion; References.
- Part I. Undoing grammatical genderTrying to change a gender-marked language: Classical vs. Modern Hebrew; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Grammatical gender and social context; 1.2 Grammatical gender and linguistic change; 2. Grammatical gender in Classical Hebrew; 2.1 Function words; 2.2 Content words; 3. Grammatical gender in Modern Hebrew; 4. Linguistic changes regarding gender; 4.1 Gender neutralization; 4.2 Gender feminization; 5. Masculinization as a new trend; 6. Conclusions; References; Gender marking and the feminine imaginary in Arabic; 1. Introduction; 2. Gendering language and speech.
- 2.1 Description of gender in Classical Arabic2.2 Grammarian discourse and gender: A social and linguistic imaginary; 3. Feminisation and masculinisation of nouns and adjectives; 3.1 Feminisation of professional titles in Classical Arabic and Tunisian; 3.2 Masculinised feminine and feminized masculine: 'The rebellious adjectives'; 4. The construction of the feminine imaginary?; A poststructuralist approach to structural gender linguistics: Initial considerations; 1. Introduction; 2. A poststructuralist approach to gendered language structures; 3. Methodological considerations.
- 4. De-essentialisation through cross-linguistic analysis: Gender categories in English, German and Croatian5. De-essentialisation through historical linguistic analysis; 6. De-essentialisation through analysis of the usage patterns of particular personal reference forms; 7. Conclusion; References; A hermeneutical approach to gender linguistic materiality: Semiotic and structural categ; 1. Introduction; 2. Interplay between grammatical, semantic and social features of the gender categorisation; 2.1 Gender and classification systems; 2.2 Towards a hermeneutical reading of grammatical gender.
- 3. Methodological consequences: An inter-level and interlingual approach4. Linguistic gender in English; 5. Linguistic gender in Cantonese; 5.1 Sociolinguistic elements of Cantonese; 5.2 Lexicon: Relational terms and keys; 5.3 Morphology: Sentence particles; 5.4 Syntax: The written pronominal system and its evolution; 6. Gender translation: An English/Cantonese comparative survey; 6.1 Corpus presentation; 6.2 Written Cantonese: Contextualisation; 6.3 Data analysis; 6.4 Analysis sum-up; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; Gender bias in Bantu languages: The case of Cilubà (L31).