Julie Abbou

List of John Benjamins publications in which Julie Abbou is involved.

Title

Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins

Edited by Julie Abbou and Fabienne H. Baider

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… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 264] 2016. vi, 411 pp.

Articles

Abbou, Julie and Angela Tse 2016 A hermeneutical approach to gender linguistic materiality: Semiotic and structural categorisation of gender in Hong Kong Cantonese Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins, Abbou, Julie and Fabienne H. Baider (eds.), pp. 89–128 | Article

While most Cantonese grammar textbooks draw on the assumption that gender is absent in this language, the fact, however, remains that the masculine/ feminine relationship – and its consequential social assignation – is indeed expressed in it. This study explores how and where gender is indexed in… read more

Abbou, Julie and Fabienne H. Baider 2016 Periphery, gender, language: An introduction Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins, Abbou, Julie and Fabienne H. Baider (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article