Gender, Language and New Literacy

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8852-7
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Corpus and Discourse

research-based hardback bringing corpus linguistics to bear on gender in a wide-range of languages.

- A solid research book from the Bologna school of corpus linguistics (which is well-known in the field)
- Gender and corpus linguistics are both popular areas of research - this is the first book length study bringing the two together
- The range of languages studied is comprehensive and enables comparisons to be made easily
- This is the fourth book in the Corpus and Discourse series.

This book 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 cutting-edge research book will be of interest to academics working in the fields of corpus linguistics, and gender studies.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Post-graduates

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thüne, Eva-Maria

Leonardi, Simona

Bazzanella, Carla

Thune, Eva-Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Gender, language and culture in new technologies - Carla Bazzanella, Simona Leonardi and Eva-Maria
2. Czech: Friendly to women? Svetla Cmejrkova.
3. Treatment of 'woman' and 'man' in the Dutch Word Thesaurus - Ingrid van Alphen and Alessandra Corda, Leiden
4. English - Camilla Bettoni
5. The German Word Thesaurus and socio-cultural models - Eva-Maria Thüne and Simona Leonardi
6. Gender construction and the Word Thesaurus for Greek - Marianna Katsoyiannou and Dionysis Goutsos
7. Gender on-line in the Italian Word Thesaurus - Manuela Manera and Carla Bazzanella.
8. The lexicographical representation of gender in the Polish Word Thesaurus - Johanna Miecznikowski
9. Portuguese - Maria Aldina Marques
10. The Spanish Word Thesaurus: Some limits of automaticity - Pura Guil
11. Gender on-line in Hebrew: New technology, old language - Zohar Livnat
12. Lexical gender in Hungarian: Reflections of social structures in an electronic corpus Marcell Nagy and Viviana Patti
13. A world of difference: Gender disparity in the Turkish thesaurus - Marina Castagneto and Rosita D'Amora, Firenze-Napoli
14. Gender in Chinese and new writing technologies -Antonella Ceccagno

Über Autor(innen)

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

Simona Leonardi is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the University Federico II, Naples, Italy.

Carla Bazzanella is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Torino, Italy.