Oriya. Linguistic and socio-cultural implications of gendered structures in Oriya

Sahoo, Kalyanamalini

doi:10.1075/impact.11.14sah

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 11] 2003
► pp. 239–257

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Oriya. Linguistic and socio-cultural implications of gendered structures in Oriya

Kalyanamalini Sahoo | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Published online: 10 April 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.11.14sah

1.Introduction

2.Gender in Oriya

2.1Referential gender

2.2Gender marking

2.2.1Suffixation (derivation)

2.2.2Compounding

2.2.3Adjectival modification

2.3Lexical gender

3.Women and men in Oriya society

4.Address forms

4.1Kinship terms used as terms of address

4.2Address forms and identity

4.3Friendship terms

4.4Occupational/professional terms

4.5Honorific titles

4.6Terms of abuse and derogatory address forms

4.7Euphemisms used to refer to one’s spouse

5.Idiomatic expressions

6.Lexical asymmetries

7.Male generics

8.‘You’ in Oriya

9.Conclusion

Notes

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