Communicating gender in context /:

The contributions to the book "Communicating Gender in Context" deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short...

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Other Authors: Kotthoff, Helga, Wodak, Ruth, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamin, ©1997.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 42.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:The contributions to the book "Communicating Gender in Context" deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in linguistic and discourse analytic gender studies, e.g., Austria, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Sweden. But also English speech communities and questions of English grammatical gender are dealt with. In accordance with recent sociolinguistic research the contributors refrain from generalizing theses ab.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxv, 424 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027289742
9027289743
ISSN:0922-842X ;

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