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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 understudied languages such as Moldovan, Lakota, Cantonese, Bajjika, Croatian, Hebrew, Arabic, Ciluba, Cantonese, Cypriot Greek, Korean, Malaysian, Basque and Belarusian and they all explore from the margins different dimensions of social gender in grammar. The diversity of languages is reflected in the range of theoretical frameworks (linguistic anthropology, systemic functional linguistics, contrastive syntactical analysis to name a few) used by the authors in order to apprehend the fluidity of gender(-ed) language and identity, to highlight the social constraints on daily discourse and to identify discourses that resist gender norms. This book will be highly relevant for students and researchers working on the interface of gender with morpho-syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 264] 2016. vi, 411 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 November 2016
Published online on 28 November 2016
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Periphery, gender, language: An introductionJulie Abbou and Fabienne H. Baider | pp. 1–22
- I. Undoing grammatical gender
- Trying to change a gender-marked language: Classical vs. Modern HebrewMalka Muchnik | pp. 25–46
- Gender marking and the feminine imaginary in ArabicMariem Guellouz | pp. 47–64
- A poststructuralist approach to structural gender linguistics: Initial considerationsHeiko Motschenbacher | pp. 65–88
- A hermeneutical approach to gender linguistic materiality: Semiotic and structural categorisation of gender in Hong Kong CantoneseJulie Abbou and Angela Tse | pp. 89–128
- Gender bias in Bantu languages: The Case of Cilubà (L31)Francis Crequi Ngoyi Tshimanga | pp. 129–164
- The representation of gender in Bajjika grammar and discourseAbhishek Kumar Kashyap | pp. 165–194
- The lexical paradigm based on sex distinction and the semantics of its constituents in English and BelarusianMaryia Turchynskaya | pp. 195–224
- II. Intersectional peripheries
- When She and He become It: The use of grammatical gender in the Greek of the Armenians of CyprusChryso Hadjidemetriou | pp. 227–256
- Lakota men’s and women’s speech: Gender, metapragmatic discourse, and language revitalizationJessica Fae Nelson | pp. 257–284
- “Moldovan” and feminist language politics: Two distinct peripheral linguistic marketsAnna Christine Weirich | pp. 285–322
- Eastern boys and girls! Comparative linguistic anthropologies of lesbian and gay communities, Kuala Lumpur and SorwoolMichael Dimitrios Hadzantonis | pp. 323–352
- Harlots and whores but not lovers: Dressing down the pronoun for a female addressee in a Basque Old TestamentBegona Echeverria | pp. 353–380
- About the contributors | pp. 381–386
- Language index | pp. 387–388
- Name index | pp. 389–394
- Subject index | pp. 395–411
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