Gender, Language and New Literacy - A Multilingual Analysis

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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• Authors: Carla Bazzanella, Sim Leonardi, Eva-Maria Thune
• Assisted by: Carla Bazzanella (Editor), Bazzanella Carla (Editor), Simona Leonardi (Editor), Leonardi Simona (Editor), Eva-Maria Thne (Editor), Eva-Maria Thune (Editor), Eva-Maria Thüne (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780826432186
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-3218-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Sociolinguistics, Gender studies, gender groups, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Ethical & social aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects