New book of Functional interest: HELINGER/ BUßMANN

[Paul Peranteau]

John Benjamins Publishing announces a new work of functional relevance:


Gender Across Languages. The linguistic representation of women and men.
Volume I
Marlis HELLINGER and Hadumod BUßMANN (University of Frankfurt) (eds.)

IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 9
2001. xiv, 329 pp. Hardcover:
US & Canada: 1 58811 082 6 / USD 75.00
Rest of world: 90 272 1840 4 / EUR 83.00
Paperback:
US & Canada: 1 58811 083 4 / USD 29.95
Rest of world: 90 272 1841 2 / EUR 33.00

This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on "Gender
across Languages", which provides systematic descriptions of various
categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30
languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds.

Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are
the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the
relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas
such as agreement, pronominalization and word-formation? How is
specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in
language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that
masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of
variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a
more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and its
follow-up volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly
comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original
contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors.
The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.

Languages of Volume I: Arabic, Belizean Creole, Eastern Maroon Creole,
English (American, New Zealand, Australian), Hebrew, Indonesian, Romanian,
Russian, Turkish.

Contributions by: Friederike Braun; Hadumod Bußmann; Ursula Doleschal;
Geneviève Escure; Atiqa Hachimi; Marlis Hellinger; Janet Holmes; Esther
Kuntjara; Florence Maurice; Bettina Migge; Suzanne Romaine; Anne Pauwels;
Sonja Schmid, and Yishai Tobin.


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