The Expression of Gender: 6 (The Expression of Cognitive Categories [ECC], 6) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3110354144 ISBN 13: 9783110354140

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2015

Synopsis

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. The authors pay attention to a broad range of languages, including English, Chukchi, Konso and Mohawk.

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About the Author

Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, UK.

From the Back Cover

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. The authors pay attention to a broad range of languages, including English, Chukchi, Konso and Mohawk.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110354144
• ISBN 13: 9783110354140
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Corbett Greville G.