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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Information

Publisher

Continuum

Year

2009

ISBN

9781441189448

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Linguistic Semantics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Contents
List of tables
Contributors
1 Introduction
2 Czech: friendly to women?
3 Treatment of ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in the Dutch Word Thesaurus
4 Gender in the English Word Thesaurus
5 The German Word Thesaurus and socio-cultural models
6 Gender construction and the Word Thesaurus for Greek
7 Gender on-line in the Italian Word Thesaurus
8 The lexicographical representation of gender in the Microsoft Word Thesaurus: Polish
9 The perspective on gender in the Portuguese Word Thesaurus
10 Word ’s Spanish Thesaurus: some limits of automaticity
11 Gender on-line in Hebrew: new technology, old language
12 Lexical gender in Hungarian: reflections of social structures in an electronic corpus
13 A world of difference: gender disparity in the Turkish Word Thesaurus
14 Gender in Chinese and new writing technologies
Index