Gender, Language and New Literacy: A Multilingual Analysis - Softcover

Th?ne, Eva-Maria

 
9780826432186: Gender, Language and New Literacy: A Multilingual Analysis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0826432182 ISBN 13: 9780826432186
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Gender, Language and New Literacy presents cross-cultural research on gender as it is lexically and socially categorized in electronic media. For the purposes of the study, the authors have compiled a corpus of gender terms from online thesauruses to show how new technologies interact with gender categorizations in different languages, and how these are related to their respective culture and society. Each language is examined within the same theoretical framework, functional semantics, focusing on lexicon. This common empirical ground facilitates cross-language comparison. The contributors examine languages from around the world, including the Indo-European, Semitic, Uralic and Austro-Asiatic families. This is a cutting-edge research book that will be of interest to academics working in the fields of corpus linguistics, and gender studies.

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About the Author

Eva-Maria Thüne is Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Bologna, Italy.

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Publisher
Continuum International Publishing
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0826432182
ISBN 13 
9780826432186
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
246
Editor
Bazzanella Carla

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