Jessica Fae Nelson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jessica Fae Nelson is involved.
Article
2016 Lakota men’s and women’s speech: Gender, metapragmatic discourse, and language revitalization Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins, Abbou, Julie and Fabienne H. Baider (eds.), pp. 257–284 | Article
Although most words in Lakota [a Siouan language] do not indicate gender,
some can be used by speakers to mark their own gender. Recently perceptions
of the use of gender-indexing words have shifted, altering the ranges of sociolinguistic
expression available to speakers. Scholars have argued that… read more