Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and Social Gender from the Margins

Abbou, Julie (Editor)/ Baider, Fabienne H. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027256691 / ISBN 13: 9789027256690

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and Social Gender from the Margins
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027256691
• ISBN 13: 9789027256690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.86 kilograms

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Synopsis

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 understudied languages such as Moldovan, Lakota, Cantonese, Bajjika, Croatian, Hebrew, Arabic, Ciluba, Cantonese, Cypriot Greek, Korean, Malaysian, Basque and Belarusian and they all explore from the margins different dimensions of social gender in grammar. The diversity of languages is reflected in the range of theoretical frameworks (linguistic anthropology, systemic functional linguistics, contrastive syntactical analysis to name a few) used by the authors in order to apprehend the fluidity of gender(-ed) language and identity, to highlight the social constraints on daily discourse and to identify discourses that resist gender norms. This book will be highly relevant for students and researchers working on the interface of gender with morpho-syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.