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

Publication Info. Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamin, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 424 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 42
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 42.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Communicating Gender in Context; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; I. SYMBOLS AND RULES; II. CONVERSATIONAL FEATURES, CODES AND ACTIVITIES; III. A RANGE OF FEMININITIES; Index; The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.
Summary 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.
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Subject Communication -- Sex differences.
Communication -- Sex differences.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gender.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gender.
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects.
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kotthoff, Helga.
Wodak, Ruth, 1950-
Other Form: Print version: Communicating gender in context. Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamin, ©1997 1556198043 9781556198045 (DLC) 97006143 (OCoLC)36316019
ISBN 9789027289742 (electronic book)
9027289743 (electronic book)