Gender, Language and New Literacy: A Multilingual Analysis (Research in Corpus and Discourse)

Gender, Language and New Literacy: A Multilingual Analysis (Research in Corpus and Discourse)

by Eva-MariaThune (Author), SimonaLeonardi (Author), Carla Bazzanella (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 28 Sep 2006

ISBN 10: 0826488528
ISBN 13: 9780826488527

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Author Bio
Eva-Maria Thune is Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Bologna. Simona Leonardi is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the University Federico II, Naples. Carla Bazzanella is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Torino.