Screen LibraryThe expression of gender /
Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, g...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The expression of cognitive categories [ecc];
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, gender and culture, to typology, dialect variation and psycholinguistics. |
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1 online resource(v,225pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110307337（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | P240 |
| CLC: | H0 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / ` Gender and its relation to sex: The myth of natural gender / Gender determined dialect variation / Ladies and gentlemen: Word order and gender in English / Gender typology / Gender and culture / Psycholinguistic approaches to the investigation of grammatical gender / Plural as a value of Cushitic gender: Evidence from gender congruency effect experiments in Konso (Cushitic) / Author index -- Language index -- Subject index. |