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Communicating gender in context / edited by Helga Kotthoff, Ruth Wodak

Kotthoff, Helga,i1953- ; Wodak, Ruth,i1950-

Amsterdam, Netherlands [u.a.] : J. Benjamin, 1997

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 424 pages) : Illustrations

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 42

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-90-272-8974-2 ; 90-272-8974-3 ; 1-55619-804-3

ES 150

 

Soziolinguistik  Diskursanalyse  Kommunikation  Geschlechtsunterschied  Diskurs  Sprache 

 

The contributions to the book "Communicating Gender in Context" deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in linguistic and discourse analytic gender studies, e.g., Austria, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Sweden. But also English speech communities and questions of English grammatical gender are dealt with. In accordance with recent sociolinguistic research the contributors refrain from generalizing theses ab.