How Gender Shapes the World

Informationen zum Autor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is a Distinguished Professor and Research Leader at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. Her books include Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004), The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2008), Imperatives and Commands (2010), The Languages of the Amazon (2012), and The Art of Grammar (2014), all published by OUP. Klappentext This book focuses on how gender in its many guises - Linguistic, Natural, Social - is reflected in human languages, how it features in myths and metaphors, and the role it plays in human cognition. Examples are drawn from all over the world, with a special focus on Aikhenvald's extensive fieldwork in Amazonia and New Guinea. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on how gender in its many guises - Linguistic, Natural, Social - is reflected in human languages, how it features in myths and metaphors, and the role it plays in human cognition. Examples are drawn from all over the world, with a special focus on Aikhenvald's extensive fieldwork in Amazonia and New Guinea.

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• Authors: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (Distinguished Professor Aikhenvald, Aikhenvald Alexandra Y.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2016
• EAN: 9780198723752
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872375-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics