Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi

Hall, Kira

doi:10.1075/impact.10.12hal

In:Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 10] 2002
► pp. 133–162

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Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi

Kira Hall | University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Published online: 10 April 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.10.12hal

1.Introduction 2. Gender in the Hindi language system 2.1 Grammatical gender: Assignment and agreement 2.2 Generic masculines 2.3 Gender reversal: Terms of endearment and insult 3. Uses of the gender system by Hindi-speaking hijras 3.1 Language in hijra socialization 3.2 The exploitation of grammatical gender in everyday hijra conversation 3.3 The use of masculine self-reference 4. Conclusions Appendix Notes References

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